Questions tagged [systemmanagement]
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System.Management currently is only supported for Windows desktop applications
Here im using UWP Application for tracking Application closed or Open
Im Getting This error While Loading startProcWatcher = new ManagementEventWatcher(scope, queryString);
Code:
string queryString =
"SELECT TargetInstance" +
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Gosoddin
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(VB.NET) Is There a Way to Get a List of the Categories from Device Manager?
I am working in VB.NET and trying to automate a driver install process. I am stuck on finding a way (if even possible?) to check the device manager. The driver in question makes it's own section/category (For lack of a better term. Similar to the…

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SystemManagement - Find a Device instance Path
The code I tried to convert from a C# code to VB.Net code is attached.
I was able to add the headers to a ListView.
I couldn't get the DeviceID and Caption values.
There is a loop inside the code. Since I converted the code from C# code to VB.Net…

Cihangir Can
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Acquireing additional values from ManagementObjectSercher and ManagementObject
I am making my own hardware monitor like CPU-Z, I am trying to acquire my dedicated graphics card information, but it only returns my processors integrated graphics.
public string GetPart(string part)
{
ManagementObjectSearcher…

Quivic
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Shutdown IoT device from code
What I have is: VS 2017 Community, C#, Raspberry 3, IoT-Extension referenced.
I want to shutdown the Raspberry from code.
What I have found on the web everywhere is this:
Edit the AppManifest. Add
...IgnorableNamespaces="uap mp iot">
(- which…

rlinner
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ManagementObjectSearcher component queries
I'm trying to make a hardware monitizing program using C#. I have found the code to get the processor name on a Stack Overflow page. Now I want to get the GPU name, but I can't find the queries anywhere. I have looked around a lot, but because my…

Robbert de Vries
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Programmatically create a restore point
I checked around and even utilized/tweaked several solutions including the following, but I keep getting one of two errors. I either get
************** Exception Text **************
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070422)
at…

Greg Davis
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PowerShell AddCommand called from C# Exception
I am trying to build a C# console app that executes a series of PowerShell commands that run against an Azure Subscription.
var line1 = "$cred = Get-Credential"
var line2 = "Add-AzureAccount -Credential $cred"
var psi =…

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Windows Application has stopped working in client Machine
I developed an applicatin using Visual Studio 2013 and made a Setup Exe file for my application and installed on client machines where they have both Windows7 gives exception.
But when i install and run this application (exe) file in development…

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Run Rails app as non-root user, but ask for root password to access files
I have been given the task to make the source files of a Rails application non-readable without providing a password (root user's password), so the client won't be able to peek inside the application (which will run on a machine which will be kept…

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How do you detect programmatically [c#] if a disk is offline?
In Windows 'Disk Management' there is a property of a drive that is 'online/offline'. How can I expose this property in for remote hardware? I know were it is not; it is not in: win32_logicaldisk, win32_diskdrive, CIM_LogicalDisk, &…

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