Transfer file from Windows Mobile device to...anywhere

Question

I can't seem to find a solution to this issue. I'm trying to get my Compact Framework application on Windows Mobile 6 to have the ability to move a file on its local filesystem to another system.

Here's the solutions I'm aware of:

• FTP - Problem with that is most of the APIs are way to expensive to use.

• HTTP PUT - As far as I have been able to find, I can't use anonymous PUT with IIS7, and that's the web server the system is running. (An extreme workaround for this would be to use a different web server to PUT the file, and have that other system transfer it to the IIS system).

• Windows share - I would need authentication on the shares, and I haven't seen that a way to pass this authentication through windows mobile.

The last resort would be to require that the devices be cradled to transfer these files, but I'd really like to be able to have these files be transferred wirelessly.

Answer 1

• FTP: define "too expensive". Do you mean performance or byte overhead or dollar cost? Here's a free one with source.

• HTTP: IIS7 certainly supports hosting web services or custom IHttpHandlers. You could use either for a data upload pretty easily.

• A Windows Share simply requires that you to P/Invoke the WNet APIs to map the share, but it's not terribly complex.

Answer 2

I ended up just passing information to a web server via a PHP script.

The options provided above just didn't work out for my situation.