I’ve spent a lot of time this spring learning about Near Field Communication (NFC) and the NFC networking API in WinRT. That part of WinRT is present both in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, which means it’s relatively easy to get tablets and phones talking to each peer-to-peer. One of the things I love about NFC is that while NFC itself only works when two devices are in close proximity (3 or 4 centimeters), devices that are tapped together can use NFC to establish a network connection and continue to exchange data efter they’re pulled apart using WiFi or Bluetooth. WinRT’s NFC API makes this tap-and-connect scenario extremely easy to implement.
I did a couple of talks on the subject of NFC in WinRT at Microsoft TechDays Europe conferences in Belgium and the Netherlands. The Netherlands talk is available on Channel 9:
If you’re not familiar with NFC but wonder what’s in it for an app developer, take a few minutes to watch the first two demos I do in the video. The first occurs at the 21:35 mark, and the second starts at 35:50. Hopefully you’ll come away with some ideas how to incorporate NFC into apps of your own.
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In the video "Tap-and-Go-Proximity-Networking-in-WinRT" you mentioned that you will show the URL from where Demo Code can be downloaded. But someone cut the video short.
Would you mind sending the URL for the demo code from this session.
Thanks in advance.