I was writing a WP7 app in which I needed to talk to my Windows 7 machine. So I thought Bluetooth might be a good solution. Here is what I discovered after a couple of hours:
- WP7 does not offer an API for devs to use Bluetooth
- WP7 does not detect ad-hoc wifi connections.
I can only wonder at how brilliantly an entire class of applications has been cockblocked.
Neither Android can detect ad-hoc connections. It is a security choice they made. Maybe they disabled this in newer versions, I don’t know.
Only good way to debug your wp7 app is to run in your emulator. Even USB connected device is not a good idea and it hits problems a lot.
He said that his application needs to communicate with windows. So emulator is useless.
I confirm it’s impossibe via bluetooth nor ad hoc wifi. It’s a shame.
On android you hack easily to enable ad hoc wifi. wp7 is still years behind android or ios.