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.

I just added several categories that have to be with Programming, those categories are, C#, Oracle, PHP,Visual Basic.NET and SQL.

Why am I doing this? Several reasons.

• To make a library that I can search whenever I need to use some of that code.
• To show my talent to the world (Yeah, I am an attention whore)
• Whenever someone else besides me need an example on how to do something can grab it and use it (see, I am good too)
• Because I can

So don’t go thinking you are somewhere else if you log in later this week and see some gibberish in the front page.

I will post general stuff like how to log in to a database, that is the most common thing I do and I always forget how to do it, plus some other thing I have done on my current job, like restarting a pocket pc by code, how to use GPRS (this one is important!!), how to check the status of the battery, etc etc etc.

Ah, BTW, I am not going to write an extensive code listing or any other shit, just a zip file and a general explanation, and usage, if you are a programmer you should be smart enough to figure out how the code works.  And, I am not responsible for any damage my code does to your systems, you should analyze it first for any conflict that might arise.  There shouldn’t be any problems at all but one never knows.