Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Appendix B. Accessing WMI from Other Languages

This book has investigated WMI from a VBScript perspective. We chose this language because it is relatively easy to learn, an interpreter for it ships with Windows 2000 as standard under the auspices of the Windows Scripting Host, and there is a good chance that it will be reasonably familiar to you. Apart from the minority of discussions that specifically focused on using the VBScript language itself, the concepts and techniques covered in this book stand independent of any particular language. After all, the whole point of WMI is that it presents a unified interface to computer management that stands independent of any particular language or even platform.

This appendix, therefore, is devoted to ...