I need to obtain the Device ID of the PDA in order to write a security class
to prevent our business application from being copied to other PDA's and
used. Can anyone tell me how to obtain the unique ID of the device?

Thanks,

cybercrypt

There is an article on MSDN which shows how to get a unique ID:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...vedeviceid.asp

Peter

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Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP
www.inthehand.com | www.opennetcf.org

"glenn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I need to obtain the Device ID of the PDA in order to write a security
>class
> to prevent our business application from being copied to other PDA's and
> used. Can anyone tell me how to obtain the unique ID of the device?
>
> Thanks,
>
> cybercrypt
>
>

Has anyone actually used this example to retrieve the device ID? There were
a few bugs in the posted code I had to fix but still getting errors when
trying to compile... Just wondering if there is another example...

Thanks,

cybercrypt


"Peter Foot [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> There is an article on MSDN which shows how to get a unique ID:-
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...vedeviceid.asp
>
> Peter
>
> --
> Peter Foot
> Windows Embedded MVP
> www.inthehand.com | www.opennetcf.org
>
> "glenn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ewg%(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I need to obtain the Device ID of the PDA in order to write a security
> >class
> > to prevent our business application from being copied to other PDA's and
> > used. Can anyone tell me how to obtain the unique ID of the device?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > cybercrypt
> >
> >
>
>

Yes, there is another example on the .NET Compact Framework QuickStarts:

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickst...pactframework/

See "Get the Device ID" in the Interopability with Native Code section.

- Bruce Hamilton
Microsoft