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Jerry West - 15 Mar 2008 20:22 GMT

I just want to make certain I'm clear on something...

I plan on using WMI in my VB.NET 2008 project. To do so I include the
following statement:

imports System.Management

Now, what I want to be clear on is this --if a user has the .NET Framework
installed then my program will be able to use WMI. I don't also need to
insure that they have the WMI scripting library (wbemdisp.tlb) installed
like in VB6?

Thanks!

JW

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kimiraikkonen - 15 Mar 2008 20:46 GMT

> I just want to make certain I'm clear on something...
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> JW

Also it seems System.Management namespace is not present (undefined)
in .NET 2.0 with VB 2005 express. Why?

But there's in MSDN? :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management(VS.80).aspx

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kimiraikkonen - 15 Mar 2008 20:55 GMT

> > I just want to make certain I'm clear on something...
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> But there's in MSDN? :http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management(VS.80).aspx

Replying my own issue:
Referencing system.management DLL made VB 2005 recognize.

So Jerry, if you've done your program with referencing and using
correct library (and seems you did) and if the target framework is
installed and running on target machine, there shouldn't be any
difficulty for your program.

Also, if you still want to check a file's(assembly or library)
existence, use "System.IO.File.Exists" function in your form_load
event to notify user.

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