Windows Phone Thoughts: Are You Connected?

Designing applications that are automatically aware of whether or not a network connection exists becomes increasingly interesting. Today's devices can connect using cellular networks, WiFi networks and even passing through the connection held by a desktop PC. Synchronization is one scenario where an application's ability to make intelligent and automatic decisions based on connectivity is useful.

MSDN authors Dan Fox and Jon Box just got their latest contribution "Testing for and Responding to Network Connections in the .NET Compact Framework" published. Take a look at their sample code to learn how to detect network connections from your Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework-based applications.