Appendix B. WMI Server Explorer

Microsoft has developed the WMI Server Explorer extension for Visual Studio.NET, a new tool for interacting with WMI in the integrated development environment. The Server Explorer is a useful aid that allows you to manipulate and manage various components of a machine. By default, there are facilities in the server explorer to access the Windows event log, services, performance counters, message queues, and SQL Server database connections. To add the WMI Server Explorer extension, you must download and install it from the Microsoft Web site. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ and perform a keyword search for “Management (WMI) Extensions for VS.NET” to link to the WMI Server Explorer download page.

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