Establish a GPRS connection with TcpClient

posted by  jhorra (5)  16 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

NETCF's HttpWebRequest automatically sets up a GPRS connection for web requests/web services when a wired/wi-fi connection is not available. Therefore, when you do a web request or consume a web service, developers do not need special coding to handle the GPRS connection case. This does not apply to lower level socket classes like TcpClient and UdpClient. With these classes, you would need to use the Connection Manager APIs to establish/release the connections.

To allow users to more easily setup/release a GPRS connection, I have written a managed representation of the connection man