WMI support!

[Lee]

Hi,

Does a list of supported hardware for WMI exist? (CPU, motherboards, disk
drives ect).

thanks in advance
lee

[chanmm]

Try it. If you got exception then not supported.

chanmm

"Lee" <le*****@hotmail.comwrote in message
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Hi,

Does a list of supported hardware for WMI exist? (CPU, motherboards, disk
drives ect).

thanks in advance
lee

[Lee]

but does a list exist?
"chanmm" <ch*****@hotmail.comwrote in message
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Try it. If you got exception then not supported.

chanmm

"Lee" <le*****@hotmail.comwrote in message
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>Hi,

Does a list of supported hardware for WMI exist? (CPU, motherboards, disk
drives ect).

thanks in advance
lee

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

Lee,

I think that looking at the hardware is not really the right idea.
Windows interacts with hardware through an abstraction layer. WMI interacts
with the hardware through this abstraction layer. It basically is a
normalized way of accessing information in a system.

That being said, if your system supports the hardware, then you should
be able to get information about it through WMI (WMI will just access the
appropriate APIs that you would access normally).

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Lee" <le*****@hotmail.comwrote in message
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but does a list exist?
"chanmm" <ch*****@hotmail.comwrote in message
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>Try it. If you got exception then not supported.

chanmm

"Lee" <le*****@hotmail.comwrote in message
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>>Hi,

Does a list of supported hardware for WMI exist? (CPU, motherboards,
disk drives ect).

thanks in advance
lee

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

No, there is no such a list, each hardware vendor is free to support WMI for
it's devices or not. Standard included with Windows (OS version dependent)
is what is found in the root\cimv2 namespace, MSFT does add as much as
possible in there, more specific device stuff is added (by MSFT and IHV's)
into the root\wmi namespace.
Anything specific you are missing?

Willy.
"Lee" <le*****@hotmail.comwrote in message
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| Hi,
|
| Does a list of supported hardware for WMI exist? (CPU, motherboards, disk
| drives ect).
|
| thanks in advance
| lee
|
|