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Visual Basic
WMI Network Services Obtaining Network Adapter Information using WMI |
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Posted: | Monday March 04, 2002 |
Updated: | Monday November 28, 2011 |
Applies to: | VB5, VB6 |
Developed with: | VB6, Windows XP |
OS restrictions: | Windows NT, 2000, XP. See Prerequisites below. |
Author: | VBnet - Randy Birch |
Related: |
Win32_NetworkAdapter: WMI Network Adapter Info Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration: WMI Network Adapter Configuration |
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Windows Script Host is built into Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, ME and XP.
If you are running Windows 95 or NT4, you can download Windows Script
Host from the Microsoft Windows Script Technologies Web site at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/.
Some information is not returned on non-NT-based systems. A reference set in Projects / References to the Microsoft WMI Scripting Library. |
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The Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI class represents a network adapter on a Windows system. See the Comments section below for a complete listing of properties returned from this class. This demo and illustration only show some of the available information from the class. For a complete listing see the table in the Comments section below. Note that some systems may not return information in all class properties. |
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To a form add a command button (Command1) and a listview (Listview1). Set a reference in Projects / References to the Microsoft WMI Scripting Library, and add the following to the form: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Option Explicit '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ' Copyright ©1996-2011 VBnet/Randy Birch, All Rights Reserved. ' Some pages may also contain other copyrights by the author. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ' Distribution: You can freely use this code in your own ' applications, but you may not reproduce ' or publish this code on any web site, ' online service, or distribute as source ' on any media without express permission. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '/* Below used for listview column auto-resizing Private Const LVM_FIRST As Long = &H1000 Private Const LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH As Long = (LVM_FIRST + 30) Private Const LVSCW_AUTOSIZE As Long = -1 Private Const LVSCW_AUTOSIZE_USEHEADER As Long = -2 Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _ Alias "SendMessageA" _ (ByVal hwnd As Long, _ ByVal wMsg As Long, _ ByVal wParam As Long, _ lParam As Any) As Long Private Sub Form_Load() With ListView1 .ListItems.Clear .ColumnHeaders.Clear .ColumnHeaders.Add , , "DeviceID" .ColumnHeaders.Add , , "MAC Addr" .ColumnHeaders.Add , , "Type" .ColumnHeaders.Add , , "Manufacturer" .ColumnHeaders.Add , , "Description" .View = lvwReport .Sorted = False End With Command1.Caption = "Get Adapter Info" End Sub Private Sub Command1_Click() ListView1.ListItems.Clear Call wmiNetAdapterInfo Call lvAutosizeControl(ListView1) End Sub Private Sub lvAutosizeControl(lv As ListView) Dim col2adjust As Long '/* Size each column based on the maximum of '/* EITHER the columnheader text width, or, '/* if the items below it are wider, the '/* widest list item in the column For col2adjust = 0 To lv.ColumnHeaders.Count - 1 Call SendMessage(lv.hwnd, _ LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, _ col2adjust, _ ByVal LVSCW_AUTOSIZE_USEHEADER) Next End Sub Private Sub wmiNetAdapterInfo() Dim NetAdapter As SWbemObjectSet Dim na As SWbemObject Dim itmx As ListItem 'must have error handler enabled, as all 'adapters do not return all information On Local Error Resume Next Set NetAdapter = GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf("Win32_NetworkAdapter") For Each na In NetAdapter Set itmx = ListView1.ListItems.Add(, , na.DeviceID) itmx.SubItems(1) = na.MACAddress itmx.SubItems(2) = na.AdapterType itmx.SubItems(3) = na.Manufacturer itmx.SubItems(4) = na.Description Next End Sub |
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All information returned in the Win32_NetworkAdapter
class (note that some systems may not return information in all class
properties):
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Copyright ©1996-2011 VBnet and Randy Birch. All Rights Reserved. |