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Retrieving Device name from connected desktop
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Thanks Erel.
What I was hoping to do was write a desktop tool to synchronize with more than one device. It would have been good to be able to identify them by name (like Activesync does) so the user can set synchronisation settings by device. eWallet by Ilium also does this, so there must be some trick that I'm overlooking.
In fact, I've just looked, and in the registry on the desktop at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services
there are items that show the currently (or most recently) connected device's OEM name.
At
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\Partners
there is a list of paired devices, with the "activesync" name for each. I just need to figure out how to decide which partner is connected.
Nearly there
Mike
What I was hoping to do was write a desktop tool to synchronize with more than one device. It would have been good to be able to identify them by name (like Activesync does) so the user can set synchronisation settings by device. eWallet by Ilium also does this, so there must be some trick that I'm overlooking.
In fact, I've just looked, and in the registry on the desktop at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services
there are items that show the currently (or most recently) connected device's OEM name.
At
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\Partners
there is a list of paired devices, with the "activesync" name for each. I just need to figure out how to decide which partner is connected.
Nearly there
Mike
Hi Mike,
Why not write your own identifying name to the registry and then read that key each time a device is loaded
the following may give some guidance
How To Use RAPI to Add Keys and Values to the Registry on a Remote Windows CE Device
Cheers
Joe
Why not write your own identifying name to the registry and then read that key each time a device is loaded
the following may give some guidance
How To Use RAPI to Add Keys and Values to the Registry on a Remote Windows CE Device
Cheers
Joe
Hello again,
My turn to help :sign0060:
the code here will do the job. I have tried it and it works great.
I changed the name of my device and voila, returns the new name.
Visual Basic sample code - How to retrieve a Pocket PC device's name - Source code examples
This code is in VB but you could probably modify it if you do not have vb as your desktop programming environment
Cheers
Joe
My turn to help :sign0060:
the code here will do the job. I have tried it and it works great.
I changed the name of my device and voila, returns the new name.
Visual Basic sample code - How to retrieve a Pocket PC device's name - Source code examples
This code is in VB but you could probably modify it if you do not have vb as your desktop programming environment
Cheers
Joe