WMI with .NET

[Alan Gillott]

Can anyone point me to a basic overview of using WMI from VB/VS 2003.

Thank you
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[Vadym Stetsyak]

(
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...de/html/cpconmanagingapplicationsusingwmi.asp )

(
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnhcvs04/html/vs04d6a.asp )

 

[Guest]

http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/VB.NET/Can-We-Integrate-Visual-BasicNET-SQL-Server-2000-and-WMI/

and then follow the link to Breaking-the-Ice

 

[Alan Gillott]

Thank you guys; all these examples assume I want to look at disks etc. alas
and alak, i want to check to see that a printer is really there and not
broken; i'm OK now with the VB/WMI side, it's WMI magic strings that I can't
find documentation for. They seem to assume you can derive an infinite
combination of strings from a few very specific examples.

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