New PC/SC SDK and sample applications

The version 2.00 of our PC/SC SDK is now available for download: pcsc-sdk_2-00.zip. This SDK works with our PC/SC readers (CSB6Prox’N’Roll PC/SCEasyFinger and CrazyWriter).

This release of the SDK includes a new PC/SC Diag application, rewritten from scratch in C# for the .NET framework (previous version written in C++ with MFC for Win32 is still available anyway). This PC/SC Diagnostic application makes it easy to exchange APDU commands/responses (SCardTransmit) with the smartcard in a given reader, and/or to send directly control commands to the reader itself (SCardControl). Giving the user full control on the various options given by the other winscard.dll‘s function (SCardConnect, SCardReconnect, SCardDisconnect), this new version of PC/SC Diag is the must-have utility to discover the PC/SC world and to explore virtually any smartcard “by hand”.

The SDK provides both the source code and the compiled binaries. Should you want to use the software directly, you may download and install PC/SC Diag for Windows through this setup package: PC/SC Diag setup (SQ2075).

The SDK also now includes a brand new application to deal with NFC Forum tags, according to the SmartPoster and vCard specifications. NFCTool is able to both format, write and read the popular NFC Forum type 2 tags (NXP Mifare UL and UL C family, Infineon My-D NFC SLE66 series, Kovio 2KB tags, and more) and also the NFC Forum type 4 tags (formatting is implemented only for NXP Desfire EV1, but read/write is designed to operate with virtually any compliant card already formatted). A companion to NFCTool is NFCSpTray is a small utility that sits in the tray-bar and waits “silently” until a tag holding a valid SmartPoster is presented on the contactless reader. Then NFCSpTray opens the SmartPoster’s URL in your default web browser. This is the first step for a NFC Forum SmartPoster-based navigation on Windows!

The SDK provides both the source code and the compiled binaries. Should you want to use the software directly, you may download and install NFCTool and NFCSpTray for Windows through this setup package: NFCTool and NFCSpTray setup (SQ2074).


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