prgrammatically accessing GPS device

[dalelane]

can anyone point me in the direction of some info on how to access the current Sat Nav coordinates from a (bluetooth) GPS device, please!

i'm guessing ( / hoping) that its not device-specific - and I don't want to do anything too clever. just need to query the device for the current location.

any suggestions, hints, pointers etc. would be gratefully received!

[3waygeek]

Most if not all BT GPS devices transmit data via NMEA0183 commands over a virtual serial port (SPP profile). There's lots of code out there for handling NMEA commands (it's a simple ASCII text format).

[Timeout92]

take a look at this link

http://www.opennetcf.org/library/OpenNETCF.IO.Serial.GPS.html

OPENNETCF is an open source framework .NET for smartdevice

you could manage GPS device with the OpenNETCF.IO.Serial.GPS class
you just have to open the port com with this class

[elefas]

Does it exist some GPS SDK for eVC++, not .NET???

[dav7]

This might not be exactly what your looking for but it may help -

http://www.codeproject.com/system/gps_support.asp