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ManagementBaseObject.GetText Method

Returns a textual representation of the object in the specified format.

Namespace:  System.Management
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.

Return Value

Type: System.String
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 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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