This sample application is designed to tell you what it is doing each step along the way in order to help you understand the PC/SC process.


Any PC/SC application will follow this set of steps:

1. Establish a PC/SC context with a call to SCardEstablishContext. In our application we let you know whenever a context is being established with a message box:


2. Get a list of readers with SCardListReaders and populate the reader list.


3. Connect to a specific reader with a call to SCardConnect


4. Handle communication with your card. In our application we just display the active protocol.