Retrieving system information

[kurotsuke]

How can I retrieve the amount of RAM installed on the system and if
the user has the Administrator privileges?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]]

Use performance counters...

Sample code;

System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter pCounter = new
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter();

pCounter.CounterName = "System Code Total Bytes";

pCounter.CategoryName = "Memory";

Console.WriteLine( pCounter.RawValue.ToString() );

pCounter.CounterName = "Available MBytes";

Console.WriteLine(pCounter.RawValue.ToString());

Console.Read();

 

[kurotsuke]

Use performance counters...

Sample code;

System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter pCounter = new
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter();

pCounter.CounterName = "System Code Total Bytes";

pCounter.CategoryName = "Memory";

Console.WriteLine( pCounter.RawValue.ToString() );

pCounter.CounterName = "Available MBytes";

Console.WriteLine(pCounter.RawValue.ToString());

Console.Read();

I'm getting an exception on the WriteLine. Any idea on how to fix
that?
Thanks.

 

[kurotsuke]

Use performance counters...

Sample code;

System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter pCounter = new
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter();

pCounter.CounterName = "System Code Total Bytes";

pCounter.CategoryName = "Memory";

Console.WriteLine( pCounter.RawValue.ToString() );

pCounter.CounterName = "Available MBytes";

Console.WriteLine(pCounter.RawValue.ToString());

Console.Read();

I got the message telling me that the category doesn't exist. It looks
like the problem is with both Memory and Available MBytes

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I'm getting an exception on the WriteLine. Any idea on how to fix
that?

It would help if you'd say exactly what the exception is.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.