Franson GpsGate

My first Franson GpsGate application

Okay so now that the Franson GpsGate Client Express is FREE, I can seriously think about using it in .Net applications. Before it was a show-stopping $12! Whoa! No way I'd ever pay that... more than a few times... :-) Or recommend to more than, well, everyone who needed it. Now that it's free, I can... well, recommend it even more.

So far I've been using it to sort out bothersome problems with GPS like the fact that ESRI ArcGIS Runtime Engine stupidly cannot talk to high COM port numbers, where "high" is greater than 8, which is where typically USB based GPS receivers show up.

Now I want to try the GpsGate API so that I can talk to it directly, skipping the whole virtual COM port. Just give me the DATA!

Here we go.