Get Owners Name on Windows Phone 7

Question

I'm porting an iPhone game to Windows Phone 7, and I'm wondering how I would go about getting the phone's name? Like, on the iPhone it would be the name you had set it to in iTunes, and that's also readable in the API with (obj-c..) [[UIDevice currentDevice] name]..

Anyone know the equivalent WP7 .NET methods/properties? I can't find them on MSDN. Thanks!

Answer 1

If you are using XNA, use the static SignedInGamers property of the Gamer class.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.xna.framework.gamerservices.gamer.signedingamers.aspx

Edit: I thought you meant owner's name, like their gamertag or name, instead of what they named the device.

Answer 2

Hey Kyle,

My guess is you are going to be working in the Microsoft.Phone.Info namespace, but they have not released members of the DeviceExtendedProperties or UserExtendedProperties classes yet.

MSDN Namespace Info

Answer 3

You can get the manufacturer specified name of the device via:

Microsoft.Phone.Info.DeviceExtendedProperties.GetValue("DeviceName").ToString();

Note that "There is no standard format for this string. This value may be empty."

More at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff941122(VS.92).aspx