Retrieve computer name of CE device

Greetings,

Any thoughts on how to return the computer name of the CE
handheld? I am trying to invoke GetComputerName, but
either it is not supported or I am using the wrong
parameter list.

Cheers, Ian Williamson

I think that WinSock's gethostname() will give you the name. As far as I
can find, GetComputerName doesn't exist in Windows CE...

Paul T.

"Ian Williamson" <bmcpeake@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:047c01c344de$6c45ad40$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Greetings,
>
> Any thoughts on how to return the computer name of the CE
> handheld? I am trying to invoke GetComputerName, but
> either it is not supported or I am using the wrong
> parameter list.
>
> Cheers, Ian Williamson
>
>

You can look this up in the registry at HKLM\Ident\Name

Using our Registry class, this is easy:

string deviceName = null;
int size = 128;

RegKey reg = new RegKey();
reg.Open(RegKey._HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"Ident");
reg.QueryValue(out deviceName, "Name", ref size);
reg.Close();

HTH
Neil

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Neil Cowburn
OpenNETCF.org Advisory Board Member

www.opennetcf.org



"Ian Williamson" <bmcpeake@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:047c01c344de$6c45ad40$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Greetings,
>
> Any thoughts on how to return the computer name of the CE
> handheld? I am trying to invoke GetComputerName, but
> either it is not supported or I am using the wrong
> parameter list.
>
> Cheers, Ian Williamson
>
>