How can I shutdown a Windows Mobile device programatically

Question

I would like to programatically shutdown a Windows Mobile device using Compact framework 2.0, Windows mobile 5.0 SDK.

Regards,

Answer 1

Another thing to note with the ExitWindowsEx API is that shutdown is only supported on Windows Mobile Standard (i.e. Smartphone) and not Windows Mobile Professional (Pocket PC) devices.

See the special notes on the EWX_POWEROFF flag within the ExitWindowsEx documentation on MSDN. I have not tried the API on Pocket PC for a couple of years, but I'm pretty sure that's still the state of play.

Instead you may like to investigate using the power management APIs to put the device into a lower power state, such as suspended, or unattended mode. What are you attempting to achieve by programatically shutting off the device?