card reader for pocket pc

[Mortar]

anyone got any examples of smart card reading for the pocket pc?

[Brett Romero]

What exactly are you trying to do? Just read/write a file to the card,
make sure the card is in, etc?

I've done it with an SD memory chip but not a card with an embedded
chip (smart card).

Brett

[Tim Wilson]

You might want to go through some archived posts to see if you're question
has already been answered...
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups...mpactframework

.... or, if you're question has not already been answered, then you may get a
guicker, more accurate, response if you post to one of the following
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anyone got any examples of smart card reading for the pocket pc?

[Mortar]

just want to read whats on the card
On 19 Jul 2005 08:37:17 -0700, "Brett Romero" <ac*****@cygen.com>
wrote:

What exactly are you trying to do? Just read/write a file to the card,
make sure the card is in, etc?

I've done it with an SD memory chip but not a card with an embedded
chip (smart card).

Brett

[Brett Romero]

This only pertains to an SD memory card. Read from the card just as
you do from a desktop hard disk. Check if a directory exists on the
card, which you know should. If the directory isn't there, prompt the
user to insert the card. Poll that condition on a seperate thread and
prompt the user a certain number of times on the insert card condition.

Your file IO may look like this for a simple read of the first line:

public const string SD_CARD_LOCATION = @"\Storage Card";

if(Directory.Exists(SD_CARD_LOCATION))
{
StreamReader sr = null;
try
{
sr = new StreamReader(SD_CARD_LOCATION + @"\myFile");
currentDeviceId = sr.ReadLine().Trim();
}
catch(Exception)
{
}
finally
{
if(sr != null)
{
sr.Close();
}
}
}

Hope it helps.

Brett

[Mortar]

Thanks but I'm already familiar with memory card read/writing. I
really need to know how to read from a smart card.

On 20 Jul 2005 03:17:00 -0700, "Brett Romero" <ac*****@cygen.com>
wrote:

This only pertains to an SD memory card. Read from the card just as
you do from a desktop hard disk. Check if a directory exists on the
card, which you know should. If the directory isn't there, prompt the
user to insert the card. Poll that condition on a seperate thread and
prompt the user a certain number of times on the insert card condition.

Your file IO may look like this for a simple read of the first line:

public const string SD_CARD_LOCATION = @"\Storage Card";

if(Directory.Exists(SD_CARD_LOCATION))
{
StreamReader sr = null;
try
{
sr = new StreamReader(SD_CARD_LOCATION + @"\myFile");
currentDeviceId = sr.ReadLine().Trim();
}
catch(Exception)
{
}
finally
{
if(sr != null)
{
sr.Close();
}
}
}

Hope it helps.

Brett