ManagementBaseObject.GetText Method
Returns a textual representation of the object in the specified format.
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)
Parameters
- format
- Type: System.Management.TextFormat
The requested textual 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
- 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.
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