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2 articles about Windows Management Instrumentation

Recently I wrote 2 articles about integration of WMI with .NET. Both have been released by DevX.com If you are interested you can find them here:

Exploring WMI: Integrate WMI into the .NET Framework
Once you learn how to integrate Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) with the .NET Framework, you can utilize a completely new approach for managing system resources. 

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/20162/0

Exploring WMI Part II: Using the Common Information Model
Part II of this WMI tutorial series discusses details of the Common Information Model Version 2 (CIMV2) schema and shows you how to query CIM to obtain detailed information about CIM objects

http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/20183/0

Posted: Mar 07 2004, 12:11 PM by Peter Koen | with 2 comment(s)

Comments

Paul Laudeman said:

Thanks for the links, Peter. WMI is a great tool to use in .NET, albeit the query speed is a bit slow when you have an alternative Win32 API you can call directly instead.
# March 7, 2004 11:54 AM

Peter Koen said:

Thanks for your comment Paul!

I've also mentioned in my articles that if there is a native way to query the information than it's mostly better and faster to use that. Just compare Win32_user, Win32_Group with the speed of ADSI ....
# March 7, 2004 12:57 PM
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