This program provides a lot of information about your computer. Most of the information is harvested using the .NET Framework 2.0 or the WMI classes accessible through the Framework.
This version is a major upgrade from the original submission. A lot of code has been cleaned up and most existing panels have been enhanced in some way. There are 4 new panels: Installed Programs, Services, Startup Programs, and Users. This project is also available in C# and because I did not use any language features specific to Visual Basic in this version, they are quite similar.
The idea for using the panels is not mine. I modified some code from a Microsoft sample.
This update has been converted for VS2008 and includes some additional features including support for 64-bit versions of Windows.
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Thanks for sharing this! The tidiness of your code and comments made it easy to follow. Haven't seen panels used like this before, love the GUI. Five globes. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
awesome example. Thank you for taking the time to put this together and thank you even more for sharing it on PSC. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I fixed it, the icon set for the exe was erroring out. I changed it to the default one and it built fine (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
The icon was from Vista and contained a 256x256 compressed image. I'll edit the icon and repost as soon as I have Windows reinstalled on my computer. :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I get the error "Error 1 Unable to write to output file 'D:\System_Inf2000546132006\obj\Release\SystemInformation.exe': System Error &H80070714& ", why? thank you. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Can you help me in similar kind, my Programme in VB.NET for WMI gives error in GetInstances() can you tell me why it is even after ref. to system.management and imports ?
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One little bug for those of us who aren't American in InstalledProrams.vb. If the installDate is in YYYYMMDD format then you convert it to the US MM/DD/YYYY format which creates an error on CDate(installDate). The fix is either to get the whole of the USA to acknowledge its error and use the same sensible format as the rest of the world (unlikely) or add an autodetector for the local date format. This should be easy, but I can't quite think what it is.
Great program!
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Sorry about the date thing. Try replacing the line after this comment with the code below it.
' If the install date does not contains "/" or ",", ' assume that the date format is YYYYMMDD. installDate = New DateTime(CInt(installDate.Substring(0, 4)), CInt(installDate.Substring(4, 2)), CInt(installDate.Substring(6, 2))).ToLongDateString 'installDate = String.Format("{0:D}", CDate(installDate.Substring(4, 2) & _
The general form of this is:
dateString = New DateTime(yyyy as Integer, mm as Integer, dd as Integer).ToLongDateString
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Your general fix is great for the part I mentioned. But there's another issue. The system also delivers dates as strings such as "25/01/2006" and you have code to deal with these which also fail outside the USA. Of course one can manually code this for one's location to extract the month and day. But is there a generic technique that knows the date format of one's PC and therefore can automatically change such a string into a proper date? In other words, if the system returns "01/25/2006" to a US computer and "25/01/2006" to a non-US computer is there one code which can output the long date without problem?
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I think the code below will fix the problems. I have assumed that any software installed on your computer would have left an install date in your local format. If some are in local format and some are in US format, then there is no way to solve the problem.
ElseIf installDate.Contains("/") Then ' Declare tempDate As Date at the top of the method. ' TryParse will place the Date of the string in local format in tempDate. DateTime.TryParse(installDate, tempDate) ' Use the Framework to extract a local long date string. installDate = tempDate.ToLongDateString() ' Remove the day of the week. installDate = installDate.Remove(0, installDate.IndexOf(",") + 2) End If
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I have just found your program "System Information and I like the look of it. I tried running it but get the following error. I am using VB 2008 Express edition on a Pentium 4 PC running XP SP2. Thanks for sharing and can you help me please. Thanks
Norman Raynel
Error 1 The command ""%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\rc.exe" "F:\TempDownloads\System_InformationTwo2028581122006\System Information\System Information.rc"" exited with code 9009. System Information
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very nice application brother and well done. thanks (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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