The next manged code library for WMI was discussed at TechEd this year and has popped up in a couple of webCasts. -- The WMI.Net 2.0 is supposed to provide writeable properties and invokable methods from managed code.
Is there an update on the release? Beta program etc... --
As far as I know there's no beta program yet. There's a web cast on the technology available here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/200606.mspx
At the end of the session, the Program Manager announces that the plan (at time of the presentation) was:
-Michel
We are looking to ship this WMI enhancement in Orcas (WinFX 3.5).
This was mentionned during the MSDN Architecture Webcast June 2006 about .NET Application Instrumentation Using WMI.NET 2.0 (Level 200).
The first beta will be available during the course of next year with the Orcas CTP builds.
HTH.
/Alain
Is there any documentation on this new implementation ?
I have done little bit experimenting with it using the reflector tool and able to create a basic instrumented applicatoin with read/write properties and few methods.
The new API is much better than old one with a good fine-grained control over various aspects of WMI. I can see this model mimicing the .net configuration model so it would be an easy learning with this model.
My quick test shows tha this implementation is less fragile than old System.Management one especially in-terms successive registration/un-registration in WMI repository. It worked quite well.
I'm really looking forward to use this in some depth; I would be thankful If you could point me to some documentation on this?
Thanks,
If you install the Beta 1 of Orcas, you will find the documentation describing attributes (already available).
With the Beta 2 of Orcas, you will find code sample added to the documentation (summer)
HTH
/Alain
