Wi-Fi Discovery with .NET Compact Framework & OpenNETCF

Did you ever wonder how to programmatically discover the list of available wireless networks from a .NET Compact Framework application? Well it turns out that although there are a number of native functions that make wireless network information available, there's not a lot directly exposed to the .NET Compact Framework. You could of course, use p/invoke to map all of those native functions into your managed application but in this scenario that can be a fair amount of work.

Not to worry, the folks over at OpenNETCF have already done the work. In Chris Tacke's latest whitepaper he demonstrates how to take advantage of the OpenNETCF library to discover available Wi-Fi networks and how to interrogate the device for other wireless connectivity configuration information.