Creating WMI Providers (Windows)

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Win32 and COM Development
Administration and Management
Windows Management Instrumentation
Using WMI

Creating WMI Providers

Providing Data to WMI
Developing a WMI Provider

Creating WMI Providers

Creating WMI Providers

Developers can extend the WMI infrastructure by developing WMI providers. WMI providers are COM objects that implement a specified set of interfaces and, until recently, were always implemented in C++. You can now use managed languages like C# to implement WMI providers. Version 3.5 of the .NET framework introduced the WMI Provider Extensions framework that makes this possible. To learn more about creating WMI providers by using that framework, read the article, Writing coupled WMI providers using WMI.NET Provider Extension 2.0.

The following table describes the contents in this section.

Topic	Description
Providing Data to WMI	Provides an overview of the steps involved in creating a WMI provider.
Developing a WMI Provider	Describes tasks you must perform when creating various types of WMI providers.

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Added by:misskarol

My WMI host provider is stopping programs from being displayed. How do I correct this problem

Thank you