ManagementBaseObject.GetText Method
Assembly: System.Management (in system.management.dll)
'Declaration Public Function GetText ( _ format As TextFormat _ ) As String 'Usage Dim instance As ManagementBaseObject Dim format As TextFormat Dim returnValue As String returnValue = instance.GetText(format)
public String GetText ( TextFormat format )
public function GetText ( format : TextFormat ) : String
Parameters
- format
The requested textual format.
Return Value
The textual representation of the object in the specified format.Currently, the only format that WMI supports is Managed Object Format (MOF). In the future, other formats will be supported, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML).
.NET Framework Security
Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.
The following example displays the MOF code for the Win32_Process class by using the GetText method. For more information about the Win32_Process class, see the Windows Management Instrumentation documentation in the MSDN Library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library.
Imports System Imports System.Management Class Sample Public Overloads Shared Function _ Main(ByVal args() As String) As Integer ' Get the WMI class Dim processClass As New ManagementClass( _ "Win32_Process") processClass.Options.UseAmendedQualifiers = True Console.WriteLine( _ processClass.GetText( _ TextFormat.Mof)) End Function End Class
Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
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