Stall Status: Know before you go

 

Stall Status: Know before you go

Published 13 August 08 11:03 AM | Coding4Fun

Stall Status is a Silverlight-based Vista Sidebar Gadget that uses the Z-Wave wireless protocol and door sensors to notify you of the occupied/available state of the bathroom stalls.

Stall Status

Every now and then someone throws out an idea for a completely off-the-wall application that just has to be built. When Jon Rauschenberger, Clarity’s CTO, came into my office with his “brilliant idea” for a monitoring system to track the “occupied/available” state of our washroom stalls, I immediately recognized it as one of those moments. I had been doing some research on the Z-Wave wireless protocol for a client project earlier that week, and I thought “Stall Status” would be a fun way to get some hands on experience using Z-Wave.

In this article I will walk you through how to write managed code that interacts with Z-Wave devices. I’ll also show how to use Silverlight 2.0’s access policies to write “connected clients”: client applications that establish a persistent TCP connection to a remote server and thereby avoid having to poll the server for status changes. Finally, I’ll walk through the steps necessary to deploy a Silverlight 2.0 application as a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget.

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