Note that the Mobile Hotspot and legacy Wi-Fi Direct group owner features cannot be used at the same time. A Mobile Hotspot is an enhanced version of the mobile broadband tethering feature. Mobile Hotspots are supported starting in Windows 10, version 1607. For an example of how to use WiFiDirectLegacySettings in a Classic Windows application, see the WiFiDirectLegacyAPDemo_v1.0.zip download on the Microsoft download center. WiFiDirectLegacySettings allows you to specify the SSID and password. The WiFiDirectLegacySettings class allows devices that do not support Wi-Fi Direct to connect to a device that does support it, and to use the services offered by the Wi-Fi Direct device. For instance you can use the Wi-Fi Direct WinRT APIs in place of WFDOpenHandle and related APIs in Classic Windows applications. You can, however, use some of the Wi-Fi Direct WinRT APIs in a Classic Windows application. That includes IDot11AdHocManager and related interfaces.įor full functionality in Windows 10, you should use the Wi-Fi Direct WinRT APIs with the WDI driver instead. While you can continue to use the SoftAP API to work with the NDIS driver in Windows 10, the APIs are deprecated starting in Windows 8.1. The WDI driver in Windows 10 and the associated Wi-Fi Direct APIs replace the NDIS driver and associated SoftAP APIs in Windows 8.1.
