Reading Device Manager's Property Fields in Windows 7/8

Question

I am developing a windows application which gives the field details --> X.

Where X is -->

Right Click My Computer >

    Properties >

                


        

Answer 1

It's quite easy to get the hardware information using ManagementObjectCollection.

For instance to get all properties and values from the PC processor

var win32DeviceClassName = "win32_processor";
            var query = string.Format("select * from {0}", win32DeviceClassName);

            using (var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query))
            {
                ManagementObjectCollection  objectCollection = searcher.Get();

                foreach (ManagementBaseObject managementBaseObject in objectCollection)
                {
                    foreach (PropertyData propertyData in managementBaseObject.Properties)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("Property:  {0}, Value: {1}", propertyData.Name, propertyData.Value);
                    }
                }



            }

The full list of WIN32 class name is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394084%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

Cheers.