WP7 Getting Unique Device and User

In order for you to get the device unique ID and WL (Windows Live) Anonymous ID you need to first declare a couple of things in your WMAppManifest.xml file.  If you attempt to retrieve this information without these capabilities,  it will throw a UnauthorizedAccessException.  Remember, like all capabilities, the user will be alerted that you require this information before they download your application.  So use this only if you need it.

    <Capabilities>
      ...
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE"/>
      <Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER"/>
      ...
    </Capabilities>

Now you can access the the desired properties.  First add a using statement

using Microsoft.Phone.info;

Then access the properties.

public static byte[] GetDeviceUniqueID()
        {
            byte[] result = null;
            object uniqueId;
            if (DeviceExtendedProperties.TryGetValue("DeviceUniqueId", out uniqueId))
                result = (byte[])uniqueId;  

            return result;
        }  

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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