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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