Reading Video Card String Description

[Dean Landry]

I'd like to read the string description of my video card from CSharp.
I'm thinking there might be a call to DirectX or a place in the registry
to look. Any ideas? I will be using the string to determine what class
of computer the program is running on within our organization.

Thanks,

Dean

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Dean,

You can use the classes in the System.Management namespace to get the
instance of the Win32_VideoController WMI class. From there, you can get
the Description property to get the description of your video card (there
should be only one instance of the Win32_VideoController class when you
select it).

Hope this helps.
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I'd like to read the string description of my video card from CSharp. I'm
thinking there might be a call to DirectX or a place in the registry to
look. Any ideas? I will be using the string to determine what class of
computer the program is running on within our organization.

Thanks,

Dean