How to get the processor serial number of Raspberry PI 2 with Windows IOT

Question

I need to get the processor serial number of a Raspberry Pi2 that is running windows 10 IoT.

Answer 1

Usually this is within the Windows.System.Profile.HardwareIdentification namespace. Unfortunately, that's one of the unsupported namespaces with Win10 IoT Core.

Instead, to identify the metal, I'm using info from the network adaptor(s):

    public static HashSet<string> NetworkIds()
    {
        var result = new HashSet<string>();

        var networkProfiles = Windows.Networking.Connectivity.NetworkInformation.GetConnectionProfiles().ToList();

        foreach (var net in networkProfiles)
        {
            result.Add(net.NetworkAdapter.NetworkAdapterId.ToString());
        }

        return result;
    }

Of course, this is not completely error proof, but, so far, the only way I can see to get a reasonably reliable device ID.