Getting system info on Windows Phone
May 23, 2012Today I want to show how to access various properties available to developers on Windows Phone. I needed some of these and made a quick demo app.
After looking around the net, I found the following resources:
- Nick Harris .NET
- Windows Phone Geek
- DeviceExtendedProperties class on MSDN
- DeviceStatus class on MSDN
Download ABSystemInfo Solution
First, a Pivot based view page:
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage
x:Class="ABSystemInfo.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone.Controls"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"
FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"
shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">
<!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
<!--Pivot Control-->
<controls:Pivot Title="DEVICE INFO">
<controls:PivotItem Header="device">
<Grid>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="607" Width="456">
<TextBlock Text="Device Manufacturer" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="DeviceManufacturerTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Device Name" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="DeviceNameTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Device Firmware Version" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="DeviceFirmwareVersionTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Device Hardware Version" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="DeviceHardwareVersionTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</controls:PivotItem>
<controls:PivotItem Header="memory">
<Grid>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="607" Width="456">
<TextBlock Text="Application Current Memory Usage" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsageTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Application Memory Usage Limit" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="ApplicationMemoryUsageLimitTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Application Peak Memory Usage" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="ApplicationPeakMemoryUsageTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="DeviceTotalMemory" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="DeviceTotalMemoryTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</controls:PivotItem>
<controls:PivotItem Header="hardware">
<Grid>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="607" Width="456">
<TextBlock Text="Is Keyboard Deployed?" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="IsKeyboardDeployedTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Is Keyboard Present?" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="IsKeyboardPresentTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Power Source" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="PowerSourceTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</controls:PivotItem>
<controls:PivotItem Header="os">
<Grid>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="607" Width="456">
<TextBlock Text="Operating System" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="OperatingSystemPlatformTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Version" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="OperatingSystemVersionTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</controls:PivotItem>
<controls:PivotItem Header="clr">
<Grid>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="607" Width="456">
<TextBlock Text="Major" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="ClrMajorTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Minor" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="ClrMinorTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Revision" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="ClrRevisionTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="Build" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="ClrBuildTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</controls:PivotItem>
<controls:PivotItem Header="unique ids">
<Grid>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="607" Width="456">
<TextBlock Text="Device Unique ID" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="DeviceUniqueIDTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
<TextBlock Text="Windows Live Anonymous ID" Margin="10" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" FontSize="24" TextAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="0" Margin="10" Name="WindowsLiveAnonymousIDTextBlock" FontSize="36" TextAlignment="Center" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</controls:PivotItem>
</controls:Pivot>
</Grid>
</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>
And finally the code behind file:
using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Threading;
using Microsoft.Phone.Info;
namespace ABSystemInfo
{
public partial class MainPage
{
readonly DispatcherTimer _timer;
private long _applicationCurrentMemoryUsage;
private long _applicationMemoryUsageLimit;
private long _applicationPeakMemoryUsage;
private long _deviceTotalMemory;
private const int AnidLength = 32;
private const int AnidOffset = 2;
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
LoadStaticInfo();
_timer = new DispatcherTimer();
_timer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 1);
_timer.Tick += TimerTick;
_timer.Start();
}
void TimerTick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
_applicationCurrentMemoryUsage = DeviceStatus.ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsage;
_applicationMemoryUsageLimit = DeviceStatus.ApplicationMemoryUsageLimit;
_applicationPeakMemoryUsage = DeviceStatus.ApplicationPeakMemoryUsage;
_deviceTotalMemory = DeviceStatus.DeviceTotalMemory;
ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsageTextBlock.Text = String.Format("{0} MB ({1} KB)", ((_applicationCurrentMemoryUsage / 1024) / 1024), (_applicationCurrentMemoryUsage / 1024));
ApplicationMemoryUsageLimitTextBlock.Text = String.Format("{0} MB ({1} KB)", ((_applicationMemoryUsageLimit / 1024) / 1024), (_applicationMemoryUsageLimit / 1024));
ApplicationPeakMemoryUsageTextBlock.Text = String.Format("{0} MB ({1} KB)", ((_applicationPeakMemoryUsage / 1024) / 1024), (_applicationPeakMemoryUsage / 1024));
DeviceTotalMemoryTextBlock.Text = String.Format("{0} MB ({1} KB)", ((_deviceTotalMemory / 1024) / 1024), (_deviceTotalMemory / 1024));
IsKeyboardDeployedTextBlock.Text = DeviceStatus.IsKeyboardDeployed.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
IsKeyboardPresentTextBlock.Text = DeviceStatus.IsKeyboardPresent.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
PowerSourceTextBlock.Text = DeviceStatus.PowerSource.ToString();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
}
private void LoadStaticInfo()
{
DeviceFirmwareVersionTextBlock.Text = DeviceStatus.DeviceFirmwareVersion;
DeviceHardwareVersionTextBlock.Text = DeviceStatus.DeviceHardwareVersion;
DeviceManufacturerTextBlock.Text = DeviceStatus.DeviceManufacturer;
DeviceNameTextBlock.Text = DeviceStatus.DeviceName;
OperatingSystemPlatformTextBlock.Text = Environment.OSVersion.Platform.ToString();
OperatingSystemVersionTextBlock.Text = Environment.OSVersion.Version.ToString();
ClrBuildTextBlock.Text = Environment.Version.Build.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
ClrMajorTextBlock.Text = Environment.Version.Major.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
ClrMinorTextBlock.Text = Environment.Version.Minor.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
ClrRevisionTextBlock.Text = Environment.Version.Revision.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
string deviceUniqueId = String.Empty;
for (int i = 0; i < GetDeviceUniqueId().GetLength(0); i++)
{
deviceUniqueId += GetDeviceUniqueId().GetValue(i);
}
DeviceUniqueIDTextBlock.Text = deviceUniqueId;
WindowsLiveAnonymousIDTextBlock.Text =
GetWindowsLiveAnonymousId().ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
//Note: to get a result requires ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE
// to be added to the capabilities of the WMAppManifest
// this will then warn users in marketplace
public static byte[] GetDeviceUniqueId()
{
byte[] result = null;
object uniqueId;
if (DeviceExtendedProperties.TryGetValue("DeviceUniqueId", out uniqueId))
result = (byte[])uniqueId;
return result;
}
// NOTE: to get a result requires ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER
// to be added to the capabilities of the WMAppManifest
// this will then warn users in marketplace
public static string GetWindowsLiveAnonymousId()
{
string result = String.Empty;
object anid;
if (UserExtendedProperties.TryGetValue("ANID", out anid))
{
if (anid != null && anid.ToString().Length >= (AnidLength + AnidOffset))
{
result = anid.ToString().Substring(AnidOffset, AnidLength);
}
}
return result;
}
}
}
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