ipaq device lockdown

[Robbe Morris [C# MVP]]

I soon need to deploy a .NET CF application and am curious about
the best ways/products out there to completely lock down the
device with the exception of my piece of software.

We'll be handing the devices to students in a gym and then
retrieving the devices as they walk out the door. In the meantime,
we don't people attempting to tinker with the device.

 

[Darren Shaffer]

Robbe,

There are a number of options with varying pros and cons including
everything
from putting the device into kiosk mode with forms full-screen and no start
bar
down to just deleting the shortcuts to everything else on the device or
putting your
app in the startup folder so it always runs on power-on. Some places to get
more info:

http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=502
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=kiosk+group:*.compactframework

At the end of the day, you're going to be into some native code to really
lock down
the device in the manner you described.

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

This is quite an easy tool to implement full kiosk support in your app:-
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/kioskengine/?en

It covers all the bases such as locking the start menu / taskbar as well as
hardware keys etc.

Peter

 

[Robbe Morris [C# MVP]]

Thanks, I think the info in the links you provided will suffice.
Our other procedures will prevent the device from being stolen.
Just wanted to keep them from tinkering with the device
while they had it in the gym.

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