Native OS Facilities

The FCL provides support for controlling existing NT services and creating new ones. It also provides access to certain native Win32 facilities such as the Windows registry and the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

For more information, see the following namespaces:

Microsoft.Win32
System.Management
System.Management.Instrumentation
System.ServiceProcess

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