WMI not working after upgrading to Windows 10

Question

I had been using the code below for a console application in Visual Studio on Windows 8 to return the description and device ID of connected serial devices. I was using a mo

Answer 1

A bit smaller solution than Juderb

    public static List FindComPorts()
    {
        using (var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_PnPEntity WHERE ConfigManagerErrorCode = 0"))
        {
            return searcher.Get().OfType()
                .Select(port => Regex.Match(port["Caption"].ToString(), @"\((COM\d*)\)"))
                .Where(match => match.Groups.Count >= 2)
                .Select(match => match.Groups[1].Value).ToList();
        }
    }

Tested this on win7 + win10. Btw, you can add extra search criteria to the regex if you want (or just add a new Where clause)