Microsoft® Mobile Development Handbook

Locking Down Your Application

When you deploy an enterprise application, often you want to restrict user access to only your application and not any other applications or settings. You can achieve this by using a combination of device configuration and changes to your application to avoid control passing away from your forms. Because the way devices are configured varies between manufacturers, the options available to you for device configuration vary depending on the device you deploy to.

Kiosk Mode

Essentially, Windows Mobile is designed as a consumer platform rather than as an industrial platform, and therefore the user interface is designed to provide easy access to built-in applications. Users can use many routes to access system features, ...