ManagementClass.Derivation Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Management

Assembly:

System.Management.dll

Package:

System.Management v8.0.0

Source:

ManagementClass.cs

Gets an array containing all WMI classes in the inheritance hierarchy from this class to the top of the hierarchy.

public:
 property System::Collections::Specialized::StringCollection ^ Derivation { System::Collections::Specialized::StringCollection ^ get(); };

public System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection Derivation { get; }

member this.Derivation : System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection

Public ReadOnly Property Derivation As StringCollection

Property Value

StringCollection

A string collection containing the names of all WMI classes in the inheritance hierarchy of this class.

Examples

The following example shows how to initialize a ManagementClass variable with a ManagementClass constructor and then get all the classes in the inheritance hierarchy from the WMI class passed into the constructor, to the top of the hierarchy.

using System;
using System.Management;

public class Example
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        ManagementClass c =
            new ManagementClass("Win32_LogicalDisk");
        foreach (string s in c.Derivation)
            Console.WriteLine("Further derived from : {0}", s);

        return;
    }
}

Imports System.Management

Public Class Sample

    Public Shared Function Main(ByVal args() _
        As String) As Integer

        Dim c As New ManagementClass("Win32_LogicalDisk")
        Dim s As String
        For Each s In c.Derivation
            Console.WriteLine("Further derived from : " & s)
        Next

        Return 0
    End Function
End Class

Remarks

This property is read-only.

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.