Know Your Users - Windows 8 Store App System Info

This is just a quick a post to provide a little class for Windows 8 Store app development. The SystemInformation class gathers some useful information about the current system and can dump those as a string. I usually have such a class for all the platforms I work on and it's very helpful for logging and error analysis, but it also serves as a list of all available system information which are scattered in different APIs. The info can also be used to dynamically adapt the app, etc.

Here's the code I have so far, you can also download the complete class here.

public static async Task Dump(bool shouldDumpCompleteDeviceInfos = false)
{
   var builder = new StringBuilder();
   var packageId = Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.Id;
   var clientDeviceInformation = new EasClientDeviceInformation();
    
   // Get hardware Id
   var token = HardwareIdentification.GetPackageSpecificToken(null);
   var stream = token.Id.AsStream();
   string hardwareId;
   using (var reader = new BinaryReader(stream))
   {
      var bytes = reader.ReadBytes((int)stream.Length);
      hardwareId = BitConverter.ToString(bytes);
   }

   builder.AppendLine("***** System Infos *****");
   builder.AppendLine();
#if DEBUG
   builder.AppendLine("DEBUG");
   builder.AppendLine();
#endif
   builder.AppendFormat("Time: {0}", DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString("r"));
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("App Name: {0}", packageId.Name);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("App Version: {0}.{1}.{2}.{3}", packageId.Version.Major, packageId.Version.Minor, packageId.Version.Build, packageId.Version.Revision);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("App Publisher: {0}", packageId.Publisher);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Supported Package Architecture: {0}", packageId.Architecture);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Installed Location: {0}", Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation.Path);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Store App Id: {0}", CurrentApp.AppId);
   builder.AppendLine();
   if (CurrentApp.LicenseInformation.IsActive)
   {
      var listingInformation = await CurrentApp.LoadListingInformationAsync();
      builder.AppendFormat("Store Current Market: {0}", listingInformation.CurrentMarket);
      builder.AppendLine();
   }
   builder.AppendFormat("Culture: {0}", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("OS: {0}", clientDeviceInformation.OperatingSystem);
   builder.AppendLine(); 
   builder.AppendFormat("System Manufacturer: {0}", clientDeviceInformation.SystemManufacturer);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("System Product Name: {0}", clientDeviceInformation.SystemProductName);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("System Sku: {0}", clientDeviceInformation.SystemSku);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("System Name: {0}", clientDeviceInformation.FriendlyName);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("System ID: {0}", clientDeviceInformation.Id);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Hardware ID: {0}", hardwareId);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("User Display Name: {0}", await UserInformation.GetDisplayNameAsync());
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Window Bounds w x h: {0} x {1}", Window.Current.Bounds.Width, Window.Current.Bounds.Height);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Current Orientation: {0}", DisplayProperties.CurrentOrientation);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Native Orientation: {0}", DisplayProperties.NativeOrientation);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Logical DPI: {0}", DisplayProperties.LogicalDpi);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Resolution Scale: {0}", DisplayProperties.ResolutionScale);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Is Stereo Enabled: {0}", DisplayProperties.StereoEnabled);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Supports Keyboard: {0}", IsKeyboardPresent());
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Supports Mouse: {0}", IsMousePresent());
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Supports Touch (contacts): {0} ({1})", IsTouchPresent(), new TouchCapabilities().Contacts);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Is Network Available: {0}", NetworkInterface.GetIsNetworkAvailable());
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Is Internet Connection Available: {0}", NetworkInformation.GetInternetConnectionProfile() != null);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Network Host Names: ");
   foreach (var hostName in NetworkInformation.GetHostNames())
   {
      builder.AppendFormat("{0} ({1}), ", hostName.DisplayName, hostName.Type);
   }
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("Current Memory Usage: {0:f3} MB", GC.GetTotalMemory(false) / 1024f / 1024f);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("App Temp  Folder: {0}", ApplicationData.Current.TemporaryFolder.Path);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("App Local Folder: {0}", ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.Path);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendFormat("App Roam  Folder: {0}", ApplicationData.Current.RoamingFolder.Path);
   builder.AppendLine();
   builder.AppendLine();

   if (shouldDumpCompleteDeviceInfos)
   {
      var devInfos = await DeviceInformation.FindAllAsync();
      builder.AppendLine();
      builder.AppendLine("Complete Device Infos:");
      foreach (var devInfo in devInfos)
      {
         builder.AppendFormat("Name: {0} Id: {1} - Properties: ", devInfo.Name, devInfo.Id);
         foreach (var pair in devInfo.Properties)
         {
            builder.AppendFormat("{0} = {1}, ", pair.Key, pair.Value);
         }
         builder.AppendLine();
      }
   }

   return builder.ToString();
}

public static bool IsTouchPresent()
{
 return new TouchCapabilities().TouchPresent == 1;
}

public static bool IsMousePresent()
{
 return new MouseCapabilities().MousePresent == 1;
}

public static bool IsKeyboardPresent()
{
 return new KeyboardCapabilities().KeyboardPresent == 1;
}

On my system it provides the following info (anonymized):

***** System Infos *****

DEBUG

Time: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:51:11 GMT
App Name: MyApp
App Version: 1.0.0.5
App Publisher: CN=A8E2F0B1-4749-48AE-AE18-C7FFB5B30272
Supported Package Architecture: Neutral
Installed Location: D:\Development\MyApp\bin\Debug\AppX
Store App Id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Culture: en-US
OS: WINDOWS
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Product Name: Precision M6600
System Sku: 
System Name: MYLAPTOP
System ID: 18a2e8c6-cc7d-8546-1e9e-56a12ffb32fd
Hardware ID: 03-00-D2-41-03-00-AA-72-08-00-EF-AD-05-AA-B6-4F-06-00-01-01-04-00-31-1B-04-00-0C-48-04-00-D2-55-04-00-D3-66-01-00-0E-D6-02-00-E4-7F-09-00-56-47
User Display Name: Rene Schulte
Window Bounds w x h: 1920 x 1080
Current Orientation: Landscape
Native Orientation: Landscape
Logical DPI: 96
Resolution Scale: Scale100Percent
Is Stereo Enabled: False
Supports Keyboard: True
Supports Mouse: True
Supports Touch (contacts): False (0)
Is Network Available: True
Is Internet Connection Available: True
Network Host Names: mylaptop (DomainName), mylaptop.local (DomainName), 169.254.85.85 (Ipv4), 192.168.2.148 (Ipv4), 
Current Memory Usage: 0.451 MB
App Temp  Folder: C:\Users\Rene\AppData\Local\Packages\MyApp\TempState
App Local Folder: C:\Users\Rene\AppData\Local\Packages\MyApp\LocalState
App Roam  Folder: C:\Users\Rene\AppData\Local\Packages\MyApp\RoamingState

If you know more system information Windows 8 APIs that listing is missing, please add a comment.