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yonan2236
yonan2236

Reputation: 13649

How to get the Computer Description?

Hi All,

How can I programatically get the Computer description? I'm using C# and .NET 2.0.

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I tried Console.WriteLine(Dns.GetHostName()); but it echoes the Full computer name instead.

I also used the following code:

ManagementObjectSearcher query1 = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem") ;
ManagementObjectCollection queryCollection1 = query1.Get();

foreach( ManagementObject mo in queryCollection1 )
{
    Console.WriteLine(mo["Description"].ToString());
}

But this seems doesn't work, I got this exception:

Exception System.IO.FileNotFoundException was thrown in debuggee: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Management, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5396

Answers (3)

Ryan Weldin
Ryan Weldin

Reputation: 53

The code below will obtain the computer description. I didn't test this on .NET 2.0, but the management classes used have been around since v1.1 so it should work.

        using System.Management;

        string description;

        using (ManagementClass mc = new ManagementClass("Win32_OperatingSystem"))
        using (ManagementObjectCollection moc = mc.GetInstances())
        {
            foreach (ManagementObject mo in moc)
            {
                if (mo.Properties["Description"] != null)
                {
                    description = mo.Properties["Description"].Value.ToString();
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

Upvotes: 2

Sedat Kapanoglu
Sedat Kapanoglu

Reputation: 47680

It's in the registry value

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\srvcomment

The simplest way to access it would be:

using Microsoft.Win32;  

string key = @"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters";
string computerDescription = (string)Registry.GetValue(key, "srvcomment", null);

Upvotes: 8

JP Hellemons
JP Hellemons

Reputation: 6057

You need the DLL from the windows SDK System.Management.Automation.dll https://stackoverflow.com/a/1187978/169714

Upvotes: 1

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