Device ID

[Drew]

I know you can use platform invoke to get the Device ID
on pocket PC but why didn't they just provide a method
in the CF that would return this?

Drew

 

[Peter B]

Because if things where to easy this forum could become obsolete.

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

For the same reason they didn't just write the program that you're working
on for you. There are an infinite number of things that *could* be done,
but a somewhat smaller number of things that there's time and resources to
do. As time goes on, the most-requested items will be incorporated, no
doubt, but expecting the .NET CF to cover the entire Win32 API is
over-optimistic. In the mean time, look at OpenNETCF, www.opennetcf.org,
for many of the items that MS didn't get to...

Paul T.