Get SCCM Software Center Applications using CIMSession

Question

UPDATE :

@TimonYang,

First of all thank you for your quick reply!

Regarding to the error, if you didn't import the required reference yet, you should import it from :
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure\v4.0_1.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.dll

Then i forgot to add the code for the connection. Here it is :
on my class just in the top I have the following public variables
public CimCredential connection { get; set; }
public WSManSessionOptions SessionOptions { get; set; }
public CimSession SystemSession { get; set; }

and the then I have the following function to make the connection :
public void CreateConnectionOptions(string hostname, string usrname, string usrpass, string domain)
{
SecureString secpass = ConvertToSecureString(usrpass);
try
{
connection = new CimCredential(PasswordAuthenticationMechanism.Default,
domain,
usrname,
secpass);

            // create SessionOptions using connection
            SessionOptions = new WSManSessionOptions();
            SessionOptions.AddDestinationCredentials(connection);

            // create Session using hostname, SessionOptions
            SystemSession = CimSession.Create(hostname, SessionOptions);

        }
        catch (UnauthorizedAccessException error)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Can't connect to remote machine with error : " + error.Message, "AdminToolBox",
            MessageBoxButtons.OK,
            MessageBoxIcon.Error);
            return;
        }

    }

I also have the function below to convert the password to secure string :
private SecureString ConvertToSecureString(string password)
{
if (password == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("password");

        var securePassword = new SecureString();

        foreach (char c in password)
            securePassword.AppendChar(c);

        securePassword.MakeReadOnly();
        return securePassword;
    }

Note: the following libraries are required :
using Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure;
using Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.Options;
using System.Security;

Making the connection : CreateConnectionOptions("HOSTNAME", "USERNAME","PASSWORD","DOMAIN");

The function to retrieve data works fine to retrieve data from other classes, like Win32_InstalledStoreProgram, win32_quickfixengineering, CCM_UpdateStatus, SMS_InstalledSoftware

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Hi,

I'm being moving all my functions from WMI (System.Management) to CIMSession(Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure) using C#. I have a tool to retrieve applications from ARP, processes and so on, it also retrieves all applications from sccm client software center, for the applications coming from the class "CCM_Application" I'm getting stuck to use CIMSession! When it tries to retrieve the applications I always get the following error : "The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The request contains an invalid datetime. The string 2020-00-07T00:00:00Z does not represent any of these types: xs:dateTime, xs:date, or xs:time."

Here my code :
// Function to retrieve all data from a CLASS
public IEnumerable<CimInstance> GetCimInfo(string strnamespace, string strquery)
{
IEnumerable<CimInstance> ReturnValue = null;

        try
        {
            ReturnValue = SystemSession.QueryInstances(@strnamespace, "WQL", strquery);
            if (ReturnValue != null)
            {
                foreach (CimInstance cmiObj in ReturnValue)
                {
                    return ReturnValue;
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
        }

        // didn't find anything
        return null;
    }

Then I have a function to retrieve all Applications Data as I want :
public class cmapps
{
public string cmappFullName { get; set; }
public string cmappSoftwareVersion { get; set; }
public string cmappRevision { get; set; }
public string cmappDescription { get; set; }
public string cmappDeploymentReport { get; set; }
public string cmappConfigureState { get; set; }
public string cmappLastEvalTime { get; set; }
public string cmappLastInstallTime { get; set; }
public string cmappErrorCode { get; set; }
public string cmappEvaluationState { get; set; }
public string cmappinstallstate { get; set; }
public string cmappResolvedState { get; set; }
public string cmappID { get; set; }
public string cmappMachinetarget { get; set; }
public string cmappPercentComplete { get; set; }
}

public List<cmapps> listcmapps = new List<cmapps>();
//CIM Way
public void GetCMApps()
{
listcmapps.Clear();

        string getcmappfullname = "";
        string getcmappSoftwareVersion = "";
        string getcmappRevision = "";
        string getcmappDescription = "";
        string getcmappDeploymentReport = "";
        string getcmappConfigureState = "";
        string getcmappLastEvalTime = "";
        string getcmappLastInstallTime = "";
        string getcmappErrorCode = "";
        string getcmappEvaluationState = "";
        string getcmappInstallState = "";
        string getcmappResolvedState = "";
        string getcmappID = "";
        string getcmappMachinetarget = "";
        string getcmappPercentComplete = "";
        string evalstate = "";

        IEnumerable<CimInstance> objectSearcher = null;

        try
        {
            objectSearcher = GetCimInfo(@"ROOT\CCM\ClientSDK", "SELECT * From CCM_Application");
            if (objectSearcher != null)
            {
                foreach (var cmiObj in objectSearcher)
                {
                    getcmappfullname = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["FullName"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappSoftwareVersion = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["SoftwareVersion"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappRevision = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["Revision"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappDescription = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["Description"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappDeploymentReport = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["DeploymentReport"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappConfigureState = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["ConfigureState"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappLastEvalTime = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["LastEvalTime"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappLastInstallTime = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["LastInstallTime"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappErrorCode = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["ErrorCode"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappEvaluationState = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["EvaluationState"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappInstallState = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["InstallState"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappResolvedState = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["ResolvedState"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappID = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["ID"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappMachinetarget = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["IsMachineTarget"].Value.ToString();
                    getcmappPercentComplete = cmiObj.CimInstanceProperties["PercentComplete"].Value.ToString();

                    listcmapps.Add(new cmapps()
                    {
                        cmappFullName = getcmappfullname,
                        cmappSoftwareVersion = getcmappSoftwareVersion,
                        cmappRevision = getcmappRevision,
                        cmappDescription = getcmappDescription,
                        cmappDeploymentReport = getcmappDeploymentReport,
                        cmappConfigureState = getcmappConfigureState,
                        cmappLastEvalTime = getcmappLastEvalTime,
                        cmappLastInstallTime = getcmappLastInstallTime,
                        cmappErrorCode = getcmappErrorCode,                            
                        cmappEvaluationState = getcmappEvaluationState,
                        cmappinstallstate = getcmappInstallState,
                        cmappResolvedState = getcmappResolvedState,
                        cmappID = getcmappID,
                        cmappMachinetarget = getcmappMachinetarget,
                        cmappPercentComplete = getcmappPercentComplete
                    });
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message + "\n" + "Can't connect to the remote machine!", "AdminToolBox",
            MessageBoxButtons.OK,
            MessageBoxIcon.Error);
        }
    }

// Calling the function
listcmapps.Clear();

        listView1.Clear();

        listView1.View = View.Details;
        listView1.GridLines = true;
        listView1.FullRowSelect = true;

        //Add column header
        listView1.Columns.Add("FullName", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("SoftwareVersion", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("Revision", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("Status", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("ConfigureState", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("LastEvalTime", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("LastInstallTime", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("ErrorCode", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("InstallState", 70);
        listView1.Columns.Add("ResolvedState", 70);

        //Add items in the listview
        string[] arr = new string[10];
        ListViewItem itm;

        try
        {
            GetCMApps();
            foreach (var cmapp in listcmapps)
            {
                string GetFullName = cmapp.cmappFullName;
                string GetSoftwareVersion = cmapp.cmappSoftwareVersion;
                string GetRevision = cmapp.cmappRevision;
                string GetEvalState = cmapp.cmappEvaluationState;
                string GetDeploymentReport = cmapp.cmappDeploymentReport;
                string GetConfigureState = cmapp.cmappConfigureState;
                string GetLastEvalTime = cmapp.cmappLastEvalTime;
                string GetLastInstallTime = cmapp.cmappLastInstallTime;
                string GetErrorCode = cmapp.cmappErrorCode;
                string GetInstallState = cmapp.cmappinstallstate;
                string GetResolvedState = cmapp.cmappResolvedState;

                //add items to ListView
                arr[0] = GetFullName;
                arr[1] = GetSoftwareVersion;
                arr[2] = GetRevision;
                arr[3] = GetEvalState;
                arr[4] = GetConfigureState;
                arr[5] = GetLastEvalTime;
                arr[6] = GetLastInstallTime;
                arr[7] = GetErrorCode;
                arr[8] = GetInstallState;
                arr[9] = GetResolvedState;
                itm = new ListViewItem(arr);
                listView1.Items.Add(itm);
            }
        }
        catch
        { }

any help will be much appreciated :)

best regards!