How to determine Unique Device ID

[glenn]

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

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

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

Peter

 

[glenn]

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

 

[Bruce Hamilton [MSFT]]

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

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/compactframework/

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

- Bruce Hamilton
Microsoft