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Device information

Getting device information like serial number, OEM vendor, process type, owner data.

Articles at Pocket PC Developer Network

Retrieving Owner Information on Pocket PC
October 31, 2001. This short article explains how you can retrieve Owner Information provided by the owner of Pocket PC from Owner Information dialog with eMbedded Visual C++.
QA: How can I get the serial number of a Pocket PC 2000 device?
July 05, 2001. I need to get serial number of a device. How can I do it?
QA: How can I get the serial number of a Pocket PC 2002 device?
December 27, 2001. As far as I know all Pocket PC 2002 devices support built-in serial number. How can I read it?
QA: How can I change memory allocated between storage and program programmatically?
September 17, 2001. I need to change memory division between storage and RAM like in the Main applet of the Control Panel. How it can be done?

Retrieve Pocket PC Owner Information Using eMbedded Visual Basic
Mar. 27, 2001. Useful tips on how to pre-fill user information, for example in registration screens.
Quick Tip: Which Pocket PC is My Application Running On?
Oct. 18, 2000. Quick Tip how to find out what device your application is running on.

Access the Pocket PC Owner Information using eVB
This is a follow up to the deVBuzz tip in the Microsoft Mobile Device Newsletter of March 28th. That tip, which you can read here; explained how to retrieve the Pocket PC Owner Information Using eVB. Since then I have had several several requests asking how eVB can retrieve the other information contained in this key. Luckily Christian Forsberg has come to the rescue with the following bit of code. In addition he introduced me to some neat free resources from Odyssey Software. The following code uses the free OSIUtil component from Odyssey Software.
Retrieve the Pocket PC Owner Information Using eVB
Sometimes it is useful to pre-fill user information, for example in registration screens. The Pocket PC owner information resides in the Windows CE registry in following key '\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Owner'. To access this information from eVB we will use three API calls; RegOpenKeyEx to open the specified key, RegQueryValueEx to read the sub-key value and RegCloseKey to clean up.

Locale Control
ActiveX control. The locale control provides information about the language and country in which a user's system is operating.