Hey there :)

I (and three fellow students) are working on our final project in our
computer science education. We're going to make an interceptor for
traffic on PocketPCs, supposed to support a future anti-virus
application. More explicitly, we hope to catch inbound traffic on
wireless/IR/USB/SMS/GPRS/etc. before running applications "process" it,
much like a firewall would do it.

None of us have any experience with programming below application
level, and we're guessing at something like driver level, or kernel
level programming to be needed in order to create this functionality.
Problem is, we have no clue as to where to start. Thus, this post to
air the question: Have any of you any experience with programming like
this, and if so, can you point us in the right direction of where to
find litterature, tutorials, code examples, or similarly useful stuff?

Thank you very much in advance,

Daniel Buus :)

Pocket PCs are based on WinCE. Get the Platform Builder release that
corresponds to your version of the PPC OS (CE4.0=2003, CE4.2=2003SE,
CE5.0=WM5) and there will be examples in
<WINCEROOT>\PUBLIC\COMMON\OAK\DRIVERS\NETSAMP\ that might be helpful.

However, what you are planning to do is a LOT of work for a small team
of complete novices.
-MSenne

On 26 Jan 2006 06:21:18 -0800, "MSenne" <yoat42> wrote:

>Pocket PCs are based on WinCE. Get the Platform Builder release that
>corresponds to your version of the PPC OS (CE4.0=2003, CE4.2=2003SE,

I'm pretty sure 4.0 was never public and 4.1 was barely public. On my
Axim X50, Start->Settings->About->Version says
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition
Version 4.21.1088

So I'm quite sure 4.21 = 2003 SE, and pretty sure 4.20 = 2003. And
Chris De Herrera's site agrees:
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/wce/versions.htm


>CE5.0=WM5) and there will be examples in
><WINCEROOT>\PUBLIC\COMMON\OAK\DRIVERS\NETSAMP\ that might be helpful.
>
>However, what you are planning to do is a LOT of work for a small team
>of complete novices.
>-MSenne

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Absolutely right. I don't know what I was thinking.
But on that note, does anyone know where to get the 4.2 Platform
Builder source? I don't know know how to get the old version from
Microsoft and have read on the newsgroups that it can be obtained from
some 3rd parties, but I never found one that had PB4.2 up for download
or distribution. (My company already had a copy, but only installed
now, no source media)

-MSenne

Hey guys, sorry for returning so late :|

Thanks for the replies - as it turns out, we consulted with our
advisors, who recommended for us to seek other alternatives because of
the complexity and "trial-and-error" nature of the problem area. Our
contractors had an alternative assignment (a backup solution), and we
have accepted this, and thus the problem "solved" itself ;)

Cheers and thanks again,
Daniel :)