Monday, October 09, 2006

Smartcard PC/SC Programming with C# .NET

I am so overwhelmed with smartcards!

last midnight, I finally fulfilled my quest on how to communicate with smartcard through PC/SC (not by direct access through the serial ports). I previously did intensive research on OpenSC and OCF (Open Card Framework). With OpenSC, I'm stuck because of all of my cards were unsupported (my card is Gemplus Xpresso and Oberthur). With OCF, well, the framework in Java took quite some efforts for me to implement it :)

Since the last several weeks, I have been intensively also in learning .NET, especially with C#. so why didn't I explore this PC/SC access with C#. C# is my future coding skills, I intend to be really good with C# (as I did with Delphi). After a long quest, thanks to Mike Yeager who contributes a code samples of interfacing PC/SC with C#.

Let me give you the snapshot here, it is still a very simple example. the quest of smartcard with .NET continues... :)

Another Lala's Adventure

I have some pictures of Lala, but the events occured quite some time ago (I haven't got the time to upload it). the first is on Kebun Raya Bogor, when I took a long holiday on Independence Day. Secondly, Lala loves singing very much, picture taken when my health councellor finally celebrates his most wonderful day of his life. enjoy :)