microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.wmi

WMI programming from .NET.

Part of Microsoft’s public NNTP server (msnews.microsoft.com), where Microsoft ran hundreds of product support groups until retiring them to web forums in 2010. This one covered Windows Management Instrumentation from the .NET Framework: System.Management, WQL queries, providers and the marshalling surprises between them.

MVPs and Microsoft engineers answered directly; the threads document management-instrumentation practice of the 2000s Windows stack.