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Windows Mobile / WinCE Custom Ping function

I am back and yet again Windows Mobile / WinCE tutorial but this time soemthing interesting and on networking side. Lately i was developing Wireless PDA Update application which requires me to check if server which contains ROM image files is reachble before attempting to download files from the same. I thought that there is a WinCE API available to perform this task but to my surprise there is NO direct API however helper API is available. Then i have constructed an API which takes parameters and returns true if ping successful. Here is the function .... If you require full application do let me know so that i can upload to any free server. int Ping(PWCHAR wszHostname, int iWaitTime) { WCHAR wszAdd[MAX_PATH] = L"\0"; in_addr addr; HANDLE hFile; IP_OPTION_INFORMATION ipInfo ; IPAddr ipAddress ; ICMP_ECHO_REPLY icmpEcho; int iRet = ...