Peer Device information. Local Radio information. Bluetooth Serial Ports. Getting virtual COM port names for remote Bluetooth devices. Bluetooth Security. Bluetooth SDP Service Discovery Protocol. Creating Records. Connect by Service Name. Manual record creation. There are generally four ways an application might want to. Bluetooth 1. Make a direct data connection. Where the program connects directly to a Bluetooth. RFCOMM service, and sends and receives the raw data for that connection. The. See section General Bluetooth data. Do an OBEX transfer. Where the program is an OBEX client and connects to. PUTs or GETs a fileobject. The server side function can. See section OBEX below. Silver Surfer Pictures. Have the Bluetooth stack andor the OS connect to. Common services for this case are where the service. HeadsetHandsfreeA2. DP, or networking for instance. Here we do not want the. OS to send audio to the headset, or. See section Connecting. Bluetooth services below. Make a direct data connection using the L2. CAP. protocol. Where the program connects directly to a Bluetooth. L2. CAP service, and sends and receives the raw data for that connection. This. See http www. Bluetooth. Profiles and 3. NET. html for information on what services use which. For device discovery see the section under General. Bluetooth data connections below. Supported hardware and software. The library is supported both in a version for desktop. Windows, and a version for NETCF v. On both platforms various companies. Bluetooth hardware. For. Windows there are well known stacks from Microsoft. Widcomm now Broadcom, Blue. Soleil and Toshiba. On CE platforms there are also. Microsoft and WidcommBroadcom. To visually identify which stack. Visually. Identify. Your. Bluetooth. Stack. On both platforms we have long standing support for the Microsoft stack, and we. BroadcomWidcomm stack again on both platforms. Wed. Blue. Soleil stack but are looking for funding to do so. Alan if you need support for this stack. On a device where there is no Bluetooth hardware connected. Microsoft stack is present the library will obviously not function. Opening a socket will fail with an exception and getting the list of local. Bluetooth. Radio. All. Radios. will return a zero length array, and getting the primary radio Bluetooth. Radio. Primary. Radio. Nothing. thus code like the following will fail with a Null. Reference. Exception. Bluetooth. Radio. Primary. Radio. Mode Radio. Mode. Discoverable. On desktop Windows it is generally possible to disable the. Microsoft stack. The document Belkin. F8. T0. 12 and Microsoft Stack downloadable from http 3. Microsoft stack, and also includes the steps. Bluetooth device that Windows wasnt originally aware of. On machines with the Toshiba software, from AddRemove. Bluetooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba, then run the. C TOSHIBAMSBluetoothBt. Mon. 2Inst. exe. installer to install the BT monitor, and finally reboot the machine, whereupon. Microsoft supplied. Finally note that each of these stacks support only one attached. For instance on the Microsoft XP stack when I have two dongles attached. I see an event log warning from BTHUSB with message Only one active Bluetooth. This was new support in version 2. In 3. 0 we have done. Bluetooth. Radio. Mode on CEWM theres. Widcomm API on Win. Mode when the radio is disabled. Inquiry. Length in Discover. Devices, and closing all connections when. In 2. 5, there were improvements to diagnostics on. Bluetooth. Listener was rewritten amongst other. To enable the Widcomm support, in brief the. Widcomm. dll native DLL need to be present at runtime in the same folder. In. The. Hand. Net. Personal. dll and the application. As a native DLL it cannot be referenced at compile time like a normal. NET assembly. Also, Win. Visual. C Runtime libraries, since 2. Microsoft Visual C 2. Redistributable Package x. Family. ID9b. 2da. Version 2. 5 required version 8. If not already installed, this. Microsoft Visual C 2. Service Pack 1 Redistributable. Package ATL Security Update http www. In more detail, Since the Widcomm API is C and thus. PInvoked directly we unfortunately require a native DLL as well as. Versions of the native DLL are supplied primarily. Win. 32 x. 86 and WM2. PPC2. 00. 3 and Win. At runtime the 3. Widcomm. dll DLL needs to be. DLL. is cant be referenced like a. NET assembly. For Widcomm, various users have reported that there are. Windows with newer versions of the Widcomm stack, with for. Bluetooth. Client. Connect failing with a Socket. Exception with it message. Port. LookupNone. Rfcomm. We now supply two versions of. Widcomm. dll for Win. Unfortunately when to use them is. I wish Widcomm had been a bit cleverer about how they provided their Vista support. Note that Bluecove on Java also has to supply two versions of the DLL. Normal 3. 2feet. Widcomm. Works even when the Microsoft Bluetooth stack is also active, and so allows. But might not work on newer version installations of the. Widcomm stack. SDK6 version. May be required on newer version installations of the Widcomm stack, but will. Microsoft Bluetooth stack is active. We also now include copies of the 3. Widcomm. dll for. C Microsoft Win32 Registry Localmachine Opensubkey© 2017