EventQuery Class
Represents a WMI event query.
System.Management.ManagementQuery
System.Management.EventQuery
System.Management.WqlEventQuery
Assembly: System.Management (in System.Management.dll)
The EventQuery type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | EventQuery() | Initializes a new instance of the EventQuery class. This is the default constructor. |
![]() | EventQuery(String) | Initializes a new instance of the EventQuery class for the specified query. |
![]() | EventQuery(String, String) | Initializes a new instance of the EventQuery class for the specified language and query. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | QueryLanguage | Gets or sets the query language used in the query string, defining the format of the query string. (Inherited from ManagementQuery.) |
![]() | QueryString | Gets or sets the query in text format. (Inherited from ManagementQuery.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Clone | Returns a copy of the object. (Overrides ManagementQuery.Clone().) |
![]() | Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | ParseQuery | Parses the query string and sets the property values accordingly. If the query is valid, the class name property and condition property of the query will be parsed. (Inherited from ManagementQuery.) |
![]() | ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
The following example shows how the client receives notification when an instance of Win32_Process is created because the event class is __InstanceCreationEvent. For more information, see the Windows Management Instrumentation documentation in the MSDN Library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library. The client receives events synchronously by calling the WaitForNextEvent method. This example can be tested by starting a process, such as Notepad, while the example code is running.
using System; using System.Management; // This example shows synchronous consumption of events. // The client is blocked while waiting for events. public class EventWatcherPolling { public static int Main(string[] args) { // Create event query to be notified within 1 second of // a change in a service EventQuery query = new EventQuery(); query.QueryString = "SELECT * FROM" + " __InstanceCreationEvent WITHIN 1 " + "WHERE TargetInstance isa \"Win32_Process\""; // Initialize an event watcher and subscribe to events // that match this query ManagementEventWatcher watcher = new ManagementEventWatcher(query); // times out watcher.WaitForNextEvent in 5 seconds watcher.Options.Timeout = new TimeSpan(0,0,5); // Block until the next event occurs // Note: this can be done in a loop if waiting for // more than one occurrence Console.WriteLine( "Open an application (notepad.exe) to trigger an event."); ManagementBaseObject e = watcher.WaitForNextEvent(); //Display information from the event Console.WriteLine( "Process {0} has been created, path is: {1}", ((ManagementBaseObject)e ["TargetInstance"])["Name"], ((ManagementBaseObject)e ["TargetInstance"])["ExecutablePath"]); //Cancel the subscription watcher.Stop(); return 0; } }
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.


