On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Bernard Owuor <b_owuor@yahoo.com> wrote:

@Aki!
I think you found a convenient and artificial crossroads because you're facing some challenges in C#.
I'd urge you to stick with C# because all other languages are cheesecake once you master one.

I'm currently converting a VB app to C# (so that it can run in *nix - using mono) and seem unable to notice the differences between the languages, apart from the abundance of C# docs. Stick with it or take a subset to get through.

@Bernard, Much thnks for the above info :-) .... I managed to go a bit deeper into WMI much better today ( until my brain can handle no more for now ), especially System.Management and create new instances of the objects to query hardware like HDD and serial numbers etc etc.

Incase anyone is looking at connecting to hardware and c#, the here's how to use WMI :

- In IDE, add a Ref to System.Management namespace

- Add directive at top of code page : using System.Management

- //Add directive at top of code page : using System.Management.Instrumentation

Within class method, create a new instance ( to query a Fan ) :

ManagementObjectSearcher Fan = new ManagementObjectSearcher(string eg "SELECT * FROM Win32_Fan");

There are 22 properties of the Fan Object like Active Cooling etc. These will become available from the instance above.

Might need some corrections but working on it.

Asante. :-)