Wi-Fi / Access Points

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Sorry for the multiple post, I originally posed this in the dotnet.framework
group, however, this app is actually running on a PPC

Hello All, I have an application that will be connecting through an access
point. At times there may be multiple networks available. Is there a way I
can pragmatically force the application to drop one connection and connect
to a different only depending on the SSID?
 
You can use the various capabilities provided by the network stack on
Windows CE to do this, but there's no managed code out there, that I know
of, which actually does it for you. You need to call a significant number
of native APIs, etc., parse structures, etc.

A good starting point is the OpenNETCF SDF library, which does this type of
thing for you, up to the point of allowing you to see what access points are
there, what their SSIDs are, what their signal strengths are, etc.

You'd have to extend that to actually do a 'disassociate' and an 'associate'
in order to accomplish your goal, but it's better than nothing. It's on my
to-do list, but other things are more important right now.

Paul T.
 
Paul,

I have another question for you. Which namespace should I be looking at. I
have tried searching for ssid, wireless network and network stack and have
been unsuccessful.

Thanks Again
Mike
 
Never mind, I found it

OpenNETCF.Net


MDB said:
Paul,

I have another question for you. Which namespace should I be looking at. I
have tried searching for ssid, wireless network and network stack and have
been unsuccessful.

Thanks Again
Mike
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