.Net Compact Framework and Ping

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Douglas Reilly

I cannot get an implementation of Ping to work, because the Windows CE
OS does not support raw sockets (in spite of the fact that the MSDN
docuemntation says it does).

Does anyone have any information on working around this?
 
Alex,

Thanks for the reply. I will take a look at it.

BTW, I am a new Microsoft MVP myself (in ASP.NET) and so if you are
going to be at the MVP summit, perhaps I can thank you in person!
 
Alex,

One more question: How does one get around the issue of not having
iphlpapi.dll on a pocket PC? Is there a legitimate way to get that DLL?
I have it on one PPC (Viewsonic V37 with Windows Mobile 2003 as well as
a SOCKET SD WiFi card) but not on my other (T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone
with PPC 2002 OS).

I am actually writing a Blog article about creating a network utility
(http://blog.mobilizedsoftware.com/archives/cat_doug_reilly.html) and
obvioulsy want to present a solution that is more generally usable (or
perhaps just say it is not available in PPC 2003 - if in fact that is
the case and the dll was not installed by my Socket WiFi...).

Thanks!
 
iphlpapi.dll was not a part of CE 3.0, which is what PPC 2002 is built on.
The ping implementation in Windows CE 3.0 used a static library (part of PPC
2002 SDK, which unlike most of the libraries there was not an import
library. It actually contained code.
 
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