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Reputation: 273

How Do I Display the Descriptions for WMI Class Properties Using Vbscript?

I have been looking for a way to programmatically output the Description of a WMI class property, but cannot find out how to access the amended qualifier.

I have seen this question on how to use VBScript to display WMI class descriptions, using the following snippet:

    Const wbemFlagUseAmendedQualifiers = &H20000

    Set oWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
    Set oClass = oWMI.Get("Win32_OperatingSystem", wbemFlagUseAmendedQualifiers)

    WScript.Echo oClass.Qualifiers_("Description").Value

The following image is what I want to extract, shown in WMI Code Creator:

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Is there a method like this that could display the Description?

    Set oWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
    Set oProp = oWMI.Get("Win32_OperatingSystem.BootDevice", wbemFlagUseAmendedQualifiers)

    WScript.Echo oProp.Qualifiers_("Description").Value

Upvotes: 2

Views: 770

Answers (1)

Helen
Helen

Reputation: 97847

You're almost there. Take your first example and insert Properties_("BootDevice") into the last line:

Const wbemFlagUseAmendedQualifiers = &H20000

Set oWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set oClass = oWMI.Get("Win32_OperatingSystem", wbemFlagUseAmendedQualifiers)

WScript.Echo oClass.Properties_("BootDevice").Qualifiers_("Description").Value

Or if you need to loop through all class properties:

...
On Error Resume Next
For Each oProp in oClass.Properties_
  WScript.Echo oProp.Name & ": " & oProp.Qualifiers_("Description").Value
Next

Upvotes: 3

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