Setting up 32feet library

c# .net exception-handling bluetooth 32feet
telkins picture telkins · Jul 10, 2012 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I'm trying to get started with this library: 32feet

I have a Broadcomm Bluetooth Stack and haven't been able to figure out how to get this library set up. When I run my code, I get:

Unhandled Exception: System.PlatformNotSupportedException: No supported Bluetooth protocol stack found.

After digging around on their site, I found this: Installation instructions

It says to copy the appropriate DLL's into the project and then run the Test32FeetWidcommWin32.exe. I've tried putting the files in every single folder in my Visual Studio project and then running that EXE, but I still get the same error. Initially I tried just adding the InTheHand.Net.Personal.dll file as a reference to my project, but that didn't work either.

What could I be doing wrong?

Answer

david.barkhuizen picture david.barkhuizen · Jan 13, 2016

It may also simply be that BlueTooth is not turned on in Windows.

I was using the .NET InTheHand library, and received this message only because BlueTooth was turned off in Windows, and resolved it by activating BlueTooth.

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