Dial Up / RAS examples?

[Alex F]

Hello all,

I could use some help or advice concerning dial up from a hand held
device. I am converting an older compact application (EVB3.0) to
VB.NET. We had obtained a 3rd party DLL to perform our RAS
connections/dialing before but this go around I would like to develop
it myself. The only problem is I cannot find any good examples of how
dialing is done via .NET on the compact framework. Is RAS used
anymore? What namespaces cover this area. Are there any good weblinks
or books that would cover this. I went to MSDN and the only example
given is in C++. We are using VB.NET. Any help or advice would be
greatly appreciated. See you folks at the next MDC.

-Alex F

 

[Floyd Burger]

RAS isn't supported by the framework (compact or full). You'll have to do
the DLL Imports yourself, or find a 3rd party component/class that does it
for you. I think that OpenNetCF has a RAS implementation, but I know that
ElementsEx from www.ComponentScience.net does. ElementsEx was designed for
the full framework, but the RAS stuff should move over to CF pretty easily.
BTW, both of these are free libraries.

 

[Alex Yakhnin]

http://www.intelliprog.com/netcf/ras.html