Get the User Device Name and Device Serial Number

Question

Can i build a .net web application which gets the user's Device Name and Device Serial Number ? If this can not be achieved then can i build a .net console app?

Thanks

Answer 1

Can i build a .net web application which gets the user's Device Name and Device Serial Number ?

Browsers operate in a sandbox and cannot read this type of information.

If this can not be achieved then can i build a .net console app?

There's already command line tools for fetching a device serial number and name. In Windows...

wmic bios get serialnumber  

You need to read the docs or do a Google search for the device(s) you are using. Example for Windows.

Process cmd = new Process();  
  
cmd.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";  
cmd.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;  
cmd.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;  
cmd.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;  
cmd.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;  
  
cmd.Start();  
  
/* execute "dir" */  
  
cmd.StandardInput.WriteLine("wmic bios get serialnumber");  
cmd.StandardInput.WriteLine("echo %computername%");  
cmd.StandardInput.Flush();  
cmd.StandardInput.Close();  
Console.WriteLine(cmd.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());