How to get information about softwares installed on Windows Mobile devices?

Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Configuration Step 2: Add the following statements at the top of the c# code file.

using System.Xml; using Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Configuration;

Step 3: Prepare a csp string (xml format) and pass it to ProcessConfiguration method of ConfigurationManager. Return value is the xml string which contains all currently installed softwares on the device.

private void ListInstalledSoftwares() { string cspString = ""; XmlDocument xmlResult = null; // Use CSP to get list of installed applications try { XmlDocument configDoc = new XmlDocument(); configDoc.LoadXml(cspString); xmlResult = ConfigurationManager.ProcessConfiguration(configDoc, false); Debug.WriteLine(xmlResult.InnerXml); } catch (Exception ex) { Debug.WriteLine("Failed to get list of installed applications. CSP failure. [Exception: " + ex.Message + "]"); } }