Download here this new release 0.7.0-Beta2.

Since it's snowing a bit in Montreal, I've had a bit of time to look around problems on the 0.7.0-Beta1 problems.

Most of the reported problems were about Widcomm support. The stack was crashing randomly on server shutdown... I hate those API that don't do what they should : Close means close, and you should be able to destroy the object. Well, not with the widcomm API. Some worker thread is still trying to tell by callback that the connection is being closed... This is a bit annoying where there is no connection !

Anyway, this new Beta should fix this. There's also now in the stats bar a "bluetooth" status, whether it is using Microsoft Stack or Widcomm Stack.

I'm also working on some remote display of the PC screen, and to have some commands executed upon Bluetooth status change... This should be cool ! Wait and see !

There it is ! The support for the Widcomm bluetooth stack on the desktop side.

Download it here : Bluetooth Remote Control for Windows Mobile 0.7.0-Beta1

For now, this is a beta release, but this should work fine. You can now use Bluetooth Remote Control along with your A2DP headphones :)

On the dev side, working with a event driven API with C++ can pose some problems... The widcomm API is pretty different from the Microsoft stack. I have to admit, I prefer the Microsoft way of doing things, where you can call a blocking Receive method, instead of being notified asynchronously by some random thread, where I prefer managing my own threads. Also, handles are not closed if you application crashes, leaving a connection or an advertised service as an orphan. Annoying during the debugging...

Well, it works now. Maybe next time I'll try to updated the mobile side...

This has been the main complaint since the first release of this little piece of software, and since Broadcom (formerly Widcomm) has released its SDK for Bluetooth communication, I'm now updating my software to support it.

Preliminary tests are conclusive, I'm going to include Widcomm stack support in the next release !

For those of you wondering where this SDK is, go download it here for both desktop and mobile sides.

Stay tuned :)

It's been a while since I've taken any vacations, and I decided to spend some time in a country I don't know : Canada. Montreal, to be a bit more specific.

It's the first time I'm crossing the atlantic and after seven and a half hour, we land in a snow storm. A big one, for what I've been told. 30cm in a few hours, which is more than the road services could handle. But unlike in Paris, where three centimeters of snow are disrupting the traffic, here people just drive slower and safer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that french drivers are bad, only paris' ones :)

Anyway, with all that snow, I couldn't resist taking some pictures. Here is what we're having by the time I'm writing this post, there an other bunch of snow flakes whitening the streets. I don't really want to be outside at this moment :) The wind's push the snow kinda fast.
	Fortunately, snow's not always falling from the sky. This is a picture taken from the "La Fontaine" park, where you can experience some ice skating on a frozen lake. I'll definitely try that one !
Drivers have to be handy with the shovel... You can see most of them getting outside their parking lot using the accelerator to go over the huge amounts of snow being pushed by the side by snow plows.
	There are a lot of bikes here and there. The fun part is seeing all of these half inside the snow...
I'm intrigued by these big things on top of electric pylons... Anyone knowing what this is ?

Anway, this seems to be quite a nice country. We'll be visiting more parts of the city in the next few days. I'll try to post some more picture here :)