Re: VB.NET - System Information

[kimiraikkonen]

On Jul 11, 10:07 pm, Michael<[e-mail]:

Can anyone tell me how to obtain system info in VB.NET (Windows Form). In VB6 I used to use the SysInfo, but cannot find any similar process in VB.NET

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Hi Michael,
There are several ways of retrieving, but some low-level hardware info
is retrieved using WMI. To get basic system info such as OS and memory
or storage space details, you can look at:

My.Computer.Info....

To use WMI, look at these:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vbscri...dwareInfo.aspx
http://www.a1vbcode.com/download.asp?ID=4196
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=4571

And here's WMI reference where you can customize you WMI calls using
proper WMI classes:
http://www.webtropy.com/articles/wmi...ns-MicrosoftIE

For example to get VGA card name:

' Don't forget to add reference to System.Management.dll
' ----Begin----------

Try

Dim searcher As New ManagementObjectSearcher _
("root\CIMV2", "SELECT * FROM Win32_VideoController")

For Each queryObj As ManagementObject In searcher.Get()

MsgBox(queryObj.GetPropertyValue("Name").ToString)

Next
Catch err As ManagementException

MessageBox.Show(err.Message)

End Try

' --------End------

Hope this helps,

Onur Güzel