Tag archive for: WMI

Coding
14 June 2014

How to get information about all the printers that are installed in my windows machine from a C# program via WMI

I need to create a windows service that is able to send some print jobs to one of the installed printers. As this is a windows service, it has to be able to find the printer with a preset printer name. This post details some prototyping codes that I had created to determine whether I am able to locate information of all the printers that are installed in the windows host where my windows service will run.

C#, windows printing, WMI

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Coding
23 April 2011

How to retrieve the username of the user who logged onto Windows from windows service

Recently, I have been tasked to write a .NET application that will prepare the operating system environment for a user who had logged on a Windows 7 machine. As a first step, the application should grab some settings from the network by providing the username of the user to a server application. The application will then prepare the operating system environment based on the settings received.

C#, Windows Service, WMI

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