Connecting Windows Mobile client to Windows CE Host

Hello guys, seems I need some professional advice :-)

I have the following use case: connect some Windows Mobile based
smartphone to a windows CE based host via USB and transmit cyclic
data. I made a protoype using ActiveSync on XP and used RAPI-functions
to transmit the data stream; works pretty well...

This project targets an embedded market so I thought about using WinCE
also on the host side. I made some research and currently I'm a little
bit stuck about what viable solutions could be:
1) USB serial and try to adapt librapi from the SynCE project
2) somehow enable a RNDIS host and use network functions

Both solutions seems to produce kinda mucha work, so do you have other
ideas how to implement this scenario?

Best regards,
Christian.

Paul
Tue Jul 29 16:05:57 PDT 2008

My opinion is that 2 is your best chance. Does it work? Have you tried it?
You ain't gonna find any RAPI laying around for Windows CE...

Paul T.

"cpmetz" <cpmetz@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello guys, seems I need some professional advice :-)
>
> I have the following use case: connect some Windows Mobile based
> smartphone to a windows CE based host via USB and transmit cyclic
> data. I made a protoype using ActiveSync on XP and used RAPI-functions
> to transmit the data stream; works pretty well...
>
> This project targets an embedded market so I thought about using WinCE
> also on the host side. I made some research and currently I'm a little
> bit stuck about what viable solutions could be:
> 1) USB serial and try to adapt librapi from the SynCE project
> 2) somehow enable a RNDIS host and use network functions
>
> Both solutions seems to produce kinda mucha work, so do you have other
> ideas how to implement this scenario?
>
> Best regards,
> Christian.

Valter
Fri Aug 01 05:51:31 PDT 2008

cpmetz <cpmetz@googlemail.com> wrote in
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m:

[...]
> This project targets an embedded market so I thought about using
> WinCE also on the host side. I made some research and currently
> I'm a little bit stuck about what viable solutions could be:
> 1) USB serial and try to adapt librapi from the SynCE project
> 2) somehow enable a RNDIS host and use network functions


Solution 2 using sockets or high-level protocols will allow your
software to work on the USB link but also on other kinds of
connections (wired or wireless) and would be a more "future-proof"
choice, IMHO.

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Valter Minute
www.fortechembeddedlabs.it
Training, support and development for Windows CE
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