It’s pretty rare that I wind up using WMI from a C++ application, but when I’ve done so in the past, it’s been a straightforward process. The documentation in MSDN is generally adequate, and their example projects tend to lead me in the right direction. However, I was helping a friend out with a side project and I needed to call an instance method of a WMI object. It turns out that MSDN’s documentation on the subject is sorely lacking, and their example product is misleading. They focus only on the easiest possible case — how to call a static method on an object.
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Aaron Ballman is a Principal Compiler Engineer for Intel and is the lead maintainer of the Clang open source compiler. He has two decades of experience writing cross-platform frameworks in C/C++, compiler & language design, and software engineering best practices and is currently a voting member of the C (WG14) and C++ (WG21) standards committees.
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