Richard there is nothing in the current compact framework, what you can use is OpenNETCF that has an extension to the framework, it has that method and also alot more class that makes life easy when developing for the compact framework, take a look at http://www.opennetcf.org/home.ocf


>How can I get the Device name and No
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>I know there are two parts to this but how do I get at them
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>I presume there other items I can acess as well
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>Regards
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>Richatd