Trimble or MobileMapper

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Joseph Byrns

Does anyone have any experience using either the Trimble GeoXT or Thales
MobileMapper CE devices, these are effectively PDAs with high accuracy GPS
units built in. I would like to know if anyone has managed to get the SDK
they provide to work with VS.NET for GPS configuration and DGPS correction.

Thanks.
 
Yes, Kevin Cawley and I wrote the sample .NET CF/MPWS app now
shipping with Trimble devices.

The control you are talking about is an OLE Automation control called
PFTools.ocx. Great for eVB/eVC++, very difficult to wrap for managed
apps. I spent a couple of weeks on it and never quite got it working.

Trimble does not yet provide a managed wrapper for PFTools, but all
Trimble devices do report NMEA messages in addition to the proprietary
TSIP messages on separate COM ports. So you can use any of the managed
GPS classes against that those NMEA messages to decode location information.
This doesn't help much in terms of controlling the myriad of GPS settings
exposed by PFTools however. On the Geo XT, NMEA messages come
across on COM2.

Trimble is working on a managed API for .NET development but I have
not yet heard an ETA.
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Darren Shaffer
..NET Compact Framework MVP
Principal Architect
Connected Innovation
www.connectedinnovation.com
 
OK, that sounds fine. Working with the normal NMEA will be fine (as long as
I can use the Trimble onboard software to configure anything that might need
configuring)

By managed GPS classes are you referring to the new Windows Mobile 5 GPS
classes or something particular to Trimble?

Thanks
 
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