Is it possible to get user's GPS in background and post it

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Dear Friend,

Our customer uses windows CE 6.5 and i know that it has GPS capability
I am stuck, I have been searching since morning and could not find the answer on the net.
Is there any solution ?

Thank in advance

Posted 25-Sep-13 4:52am

Tyler45

Updated 25-Sep-13 4:56am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Sep-13 12:30pm

What does it mean: "get GPS", "post GPS"?
—SA

Tyler45 25-Sep-13 13:16pm

Hi,
Sorry for misunderstood.
When app runs in background, I have to get user's location and post latitude and longitude to my server.
Is it possible?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Sep-13 14:34pm

It depends on the framework you are using, should be possible.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-25T08:40:00

It depends on the framework, libraries and language you are using. In particular, you can use .NET for Windows CE:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms920900.aspx[^].

Then you can use GPSAPI this way:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/raffael/archive/2008/03/25/gps-programming-tips-for-windows-mobile-part-1.aspx[^].

To post data, you can use the class System.Net.HttpWebRequest:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest.aspx[^] (some code sample is here).

See also this open-source project: http://www.geoframeworks.com/Articles/WritingApps1_1.aspx[^].

Of course, you can use native unmanaged programming. It all depends on what do you want to use. Please see also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms850332.aspx[^].

—SA