Programmatically list WMI classes and their properties

Hey everyone, Is there any known way of listing the WMI classes and their properties available for a particular system? Im interested in a vbscript approach, but please suggest anything really :)

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• I should also add that I am not trying to get the values of the properties rather listing the available class and its properties for selection, then retrieving the value. Call it... a class browser, thats what Im calling it ;)

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• I believe this is what you want.

  WMI Code Creator

  A part of this nifty utility allows you to browse namespaces/classes/properties on the local and remote PCs, not to mention generating WMI code in VBScript/C#/VB on the fly. Very useful.

  Also, the source code used to create the utility is included in the download, which could provide a reference if you wanted to create your own browser like interface.

  From Copo

• This MSDN page walks through enumerating the available classes: How to: List the Classes in a WMI Namespace

  for retrieving properties from a class:

  ManagementPath l_Path = new ManagementPath(l_className);
  ManagementClass l_Class = new ManagementClass(myScope, l_ManagementPath, null);
  foreach (PropertyData l_PropertyData in l_Class.Properties)
  {
      string l_type = l_PropertyData.Type.ToString());
      int l_length = Convert.ToInt32(l_PropertyData.Qualifiers["maxlen"].Value);           
  }
  

  From JustinD

• Check this page:

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc983775.aspx

  From Shay Levy