WMI (or alternative)

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Hi there,

Does PocketPC support WMI natively, by means of a separate
downloadable/installable binary or maybe a 3th party package (preferably CIM
compliant)?


Thanks,
 
WMI doesn't exist on Pocket PC, nor is it AFAIK available under Windows CE
at all. What specific system information do you want to access? there are
most likely some alternative methods to get at the information...

Peter
 
Peter Foot said:
WMI doesn't exist on Pocket PC, nor is it AFAIK available under Windows CE
at all. What specific system information do you want to access? there are
most likely some alternative methods to get at the information...
Click to expand...

We have written a .NET agent which collects asset information via WMI on
desktop PC's. We'd like a similar agent for Pocket PC to collect
"equivalents" for

Win32_ComputerSystem
Win32_OperatingSystem
Win32_PhysicalMemory
etc.

Backend expects CIM formatted XML data (cf. WMI) so currently we're
implementing API's and mapping all the info we can get into "CIM classes".

I simply wondered if there is no native or 3th party WMI(-alike)
implementation already available for Pocket PC or Windows CE.


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SLE


Peter
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I'm not aware of any libraries for .NETCF which will export WMI type data,
however you can create the XML document yourself and add in the data
retrieved from System.Environments, and P/Invoking Memory etc functions
(You'll find the Core class in the SDF useful for this -
www.opennetcf.org/sdf/)

Peter

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Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP
http://www.inthehand.com | http://www.peterfoot.net |
http://www.opennetcf.org

news.scarlet.be said:
Peter Foot said:
WMI doesn't exist on Pocket PC, nor is it AFAIK available under Windows
CE at all. What specific system information do you want to access? there
are most likely some alternative methods to get at the information...
Click to expand...

We have written a .NET agent which collects asset information via WMI on
desktop PC's. We'd like a similar agent for Pocket PC to collect
"equivalents" for

Win32_ComputerSystem
Win32_OperatingSystem
Win32_PhysicalMemory
etc.

Backend expects CIM formatted XML data (cf. WMI) so currently we're
implementing API's and mapping all the info we can get into "CIM classes".

I simply wondered if there is no native or 3th party WMI(-alike)
implementation already available for Pocket PC or Windows CE.
Click to expand...
 
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