Developing WiFi Applications with the .NET Compact Framework

Developing smart device applications sharing real-time information with peer devices and desktops over WiFi has its challenges. The biggest problem I had so for was to deal the uncertain network connectivity of a wireless network. In other words, the connection must be tolerant to its sometimes-connected-sometimes-not nature. Something that I found hard to solve using a connection oriented protocol like TCP. In Developing Smart Device WiFi Applications with the .NET Compact Framework, Jim Wilson introduces his own MultiCommFramework, which allows .NET Compact Framework and Full .NET Framework applications to share information in a WiFi friendly way. MultiCommFramework is modeled after the concept of multicasting and utilizes connectionless UDP datagrams.