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Want to use IrDA in WinForms?

Anyone who has worked with .NET Compact Framework for sometime will know that the IrDA support is provided by the same - you can write applications that can act as IrDA listeners or clients - basically, do whatever you want using IrDA as long as you are using the .NET Compact Framework.

But, how about using IrDA in regular WinForms applications?

Well, until I just stumbled upon the trick I will just tell you [it's really a no-brainer], one would need to write WinSock based IrDA applications for the regular desktop for the IrDA .NET CF client. But not anymore...

I am in the process of writing one such client server application based on IrDA and try out .NET Framework 2.0 capabilities and needed to use IrDA in WinForms - and didn't want to use WinSock. After much search on Google and seeing the similar question being asked by many, I finally stumbled upon the following solution that is working for me.

In my VS 2005 installation, the Compact Framework SDK assemblies reside at E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\CompactFramework\WindowsCE. This folder also contains System.Net.IrDA.dll assembly. All you have to do in your WinForms application is to place a reference to this assembly and the magic happens!

What say :) ?

posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 11:19 PM

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# re: Want to use IrDA in WinForms? 10/22/2004 12:13 AM Manu
Can I have a small sample app for regular (desktop) WinForms please?

Thanks in advance :)

Manu

# re: Want to use IrDA in WinForms? 12/20/2004 10:14 PM saad
i need to know how to use irda.dll in microsoft .net 2003

# re: Want to use IrDA in WinForms? 3/1/2005 8:05 PM Toby Couchman
I made one for WinForms, search for IrDA in the GotDotNet workspaces

# re: Want to use IrDA in WinForms? 12/29/2005 1:23 PM quin
hello every body i want a sample of your application if its possible.
thank you

my email : quinzaki01@yahoo.fr

# re: Want to use IrDA in WinForms? 5/17/2006 7:53 PM amygal
System.Net.IrDA.dll assembly is not in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\CompactFramework\WindowsCE.
Why and how to solve this?

# re: Want to use IrDA in WinForms? 11/6/2006 11:44 AM Dom O'Dierno
It is actually in X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Smart Devices\SDK\2.0\2.0\Windows CE or something to that effect. You could always just run a search on it.

# re: Want to use IrDA in WinForms? 11/23/2006 4:45 AM aji_java
Does this dll available in MVS2005 Express Edition with .net framework 2.0? Because I couldn't find this assembly . Thanks.

# re: Want to use IrDA in WinForms? 12/2/2006 1:43 PM Dan
Please help me.. I dont know why its calling this error:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Csc.exe /noconfig /nowarn:1701,1702 /nostdlib+ /errorreport:prompt /warn:4 /define:DEBUG;TRACE;PocketPC /win32res:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin\hiDPI.res" /reference:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\WindowsCE\mscorlib.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\WindowsCE\System.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\WindowsCE\System.Net.IrDA.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\WindowsCE\System.Windows.Forms.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\WindowsCE\System.Xml.dll" /debug+ /debug:full /filealign:512 /optimize- /out:obj\Debug\DeviceApplication3.exe /resource:obj\Debug\DeviceApplication3.Form1.resources /resource:obj\Debug\DeviceApplication3.Properties.Resources.resources /target:winexe Form1.cs Form1.Designer.cs Program.cs Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs Properties\Resources.Designer.cs
C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel\Dokumenty\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\DeviceApplication3\DeviceApplication3\Form1.cs(3,18): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'IrDA' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Net' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

Compile complete -- 1 errors, 0 warnings
========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

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