Get hardware information such as Graphic Card capabilities

Question

I\'m writing a program that is using a validation of graphic card. I tried using multiple ways; the closest one i found was using:

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Answer 1

It is possible to get graphics card info using WMI. You need to reference the System.Management and import it.

WMI is a great library which contains the details about various components required for the system to operate. Hard Disk Drive related information, processor information, Network components and the list goes on. It is really easy to query the data if you know a little about the data how it is organized.

You have to use the ManagementObjectSearcher class.

Example:

Imports System.Management


Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

     MsgBox(GetGraphicsCardName())
End Sub

Private Function GetGraphicsCardName() As String
     Dim GraphicsCardName = String.Empty
     Try
          Dim WmiSelect As New ManagementObjectSearcher _("rootCIMV2", "SELECT * FROM Win32_VideoController")
          For Each WmiResults As ManagementObject In WmiSelect.Get()
               GraphicsCardName = WmiResults.GetPropertyValue("Name").ToString
               If (Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(GraphicsCardName)) Then
                    Exit For
               End If
          Next
     Catch err As ManagementException
          MessageBox.Show(err.Message)
     End Try
     Return GraphicsCardName
End Function
End Class

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