Chapter 8. Using WMI
Before You Begin
To work through the material presented in this chapter, you need to be familiar with the following concepts from earlier chapters:
Implementing a dictionary
Implementing the For...Next statement
Implementing the Select Case construction
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Connect to the WMI provider
Navigate the WMI namespace
Run queries to retrieve information from WMI
Send the output of a WMI query to a dictionary
Leveraging WMI
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