>>>Is it possible to get a PDA's serial number (running Windows Mobile OS) through .NET CF or some other API?
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>>Yes. Here's an article from MS which will help:
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>>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446562.aspx
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>>When I needed to do this I ended up just compiling this into a simple EXE which wrote the result into a known filename on the device. Then I used RAPI to run this EXE, then check for this file and read it out.
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>>HTH
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>Paul,
>Thanks for the reply. Is that the only "serial number" I can get? I was hoping for a more "serial number"-looking number, the device id looks a lot like a GUID in is not very human readable.
>I am already getting the DeviceId GUID transfered to the PC from the PDA through a similar interface as you described.

When I did it I actually got a number like 664342323-1235 from our devices. I guess it's probably dependent on the device type. If it's a cellphone you might actually get back the IMEI/ESN (which is a hex #); I've never actually tried.

I don't know if there are any other numbers available. I only needed to uniquely identify each device (I created asset stickers which were attached to every scanner that matched the device ID).