Getting Hardware Information in C sharp.net

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Hello,

Is there any way to get computer's hardware information in c sharp.net.

i.e

Graphics Card
RAM
Processor
HDD Space.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Regards.

Posted 10-Oct-12 3:06am

Babar_Malik

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10T03:18:00

Google is your friend: Be nice and visit him often. He can answer questions a lot more quickly than posting them here...

A very quick search using your subject as the search term gave 25 million hits: Google[^]
The first was this question, the second was an article on this site: Retrieving Hardware Information in C#[^]

In future, please try to do at least basic research yourself, and not waste your time or ours.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10T10:25:00

Solution 2

This is another CodeProject article you could use:
How To Get Hardware Information (CPU ID, MainBoard Info, Hard Disk Serial, System Information , ...)[^].

How come you could not find any?

[EDIT]

In response to the follow-up discussion:

Yes, graphic card information is missing from this article, but here is what I just came up with:

C#

ManagementObjectSearcher managementObjectSearcher
     = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DisplayConfiguration");
string graphicCardInfo = string.Empty;
foreach (ManagementObject managementObject in managementObjectSearcher.Get()) {
    foreach (PropertyData property in managementObject.Properties) {
        if (property.Value != null)
            graphicCardInfo += string.Format("{0}: {1}{2}",
                property.Name,
                property.Value.ToString(),
                System.Environment.NewLine);
        else
            graphicCardInfo += string.Format("{0}: [UNSUPPORTED]{1}",
                property.Name,
                System.Environment.NewLine);
    }
}
System.Console.WriteLine(graphicCardInfo);

Not that not all cards/drivers will support all properties. Just try it.

—SA

Posted 10-Oct-12 10:25am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 10-Oct-12 11:13am

v2

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Babar_Malik 10-Oct-12 16:29pm

well Thanks Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov, I got WMI, but i was bot getting that query, in the code,i thought there may be some easy way to do that, i posted question in simple way.i could have mentioned that.
Thanks

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Oct-12 16:47pm

Does the author's code work for you or not? If not, what's the problem?
--SA

Babar_Malik 10-Oct-12 16:49pm

yes it worked, my main issue is that i want my graphics card's memory, i am getting graphics card model, but i am not getting total memory of my gfx card.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Oct-12 17:14pm

Got it. Then -- please see my update to the answer, after [EDIT]. All the management can deliver to you is probably there. Better now?
If so, please accept the answer formally (green button).
--SA

Babar_Malik 10-Oct-12 17:36pm

Thats very much near to my solution, still striving to get exact thing... but your answer is very close to what i am looking far.
Thanks.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Oct-12 17:41pm

I'm afraid to say, this is probably all information Management can give you. However, I cannot be 100% sure. These queries are not like APIs: you cannot reflect them all; they are like "magic constants" -- that's the problem.

You are very welcome.
Good luck, call again.
--SA

RaisKazi 10-Oct-12 17:38pm

My 5!