CF - Information about device, platform etc...

Question

Hi!

I would like to get some information about the device, os etc. from the device running my app. I need to log this data so i can run some diagnostics later.

Now i think that this data is located in Microsoft.Win32.Registry but that means i need to know all the keys to access values.

Any idea?

Answer 1

It depends on exactly what information you want, but you probably want to P/Invoke SystemParametersInfo with parameters like SPI_GETOEMINFO, SPI_GETPLATFORMMANUFACTURER, SPI_GETPLATFORMNAME, SPI_GETPLATFORMTYPE and SPI_GETPLATFORMVERSION.

MSDN has an example here.

EDIT

Here are some values for you:

#define SPI_GETPLATFORMTYPE 257
#define SPI_GETOEMINFO 258
#define SPI_GETPROJECTNAME 259
#define SPI_GETPLATFORMNAME 260
#define SPI_GETBOOTMENAME 261
#define SPI_GETPLATFORMMANUFACTURER 262
#define SPI_GETUUID 263
#define SPI_GETGUIDPATTERN 264

For the version I'd just pull Environment.OSVersion.Version and compare to this version list.