Enumerating Bluetooth Devices Using the Windows Bluetooth API
Monday, 16th July 2007 -
What is This Paper About?
This paper explains how a developer can use the Windows Bluetooth API to detect Bluetooth devices within range.
Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras, and video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency. The Bluetooth specifications are developed and licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.The paper shows you how to create a simple Windows console application to enumerate all the Bluetooth devices in C.