While doing my first PocketPC application I came up with several problems, the first of them being how to connect to the internet using GPRS. I went to several forums only to find out that no one had a concrete solution, all of them pointed me to use the OpenNETCF Smart Device Libraries but none gave me an answer. So I just kept searching and looking on how that worked, compiled several lines of code from different sources and came up with my own GPRS Connection class for PocketPC. The code is not as polished as I want it to be, but it works.

Here are the first five libraries for Visual Basic.Net Compact Framework

• NetCF GPRS Connection
• NetCF Reset Device
• NetCF Power Status
• NetCF WIFI Power (WLAN Power)
• NetCF GSM Power (GPRS Radio Power)

If you follow the link you will find a brief explanation on how it should be used and a link to a zip file containing a [name].vb class file.

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