Creating WMI Providers

Developers can extend the WMI infrastructure by developing WMI providers. WMI providers are COM objects that implement a specified set of interfaces and, until recently, were always implemented in C++. You can now use managed languages like C# to implement WMI providers. Version 3.5 of the .NET framework introduced the WMI Provider Extensions framework that makes this possible. To learn more about creating WMI providers by using that framework, read the article, Writing coupled WMI providers using WMI.NET Provider Extension 2.0.

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You can also create a provider using Windows Management Infrastructure (MI), the next-generation version of WMI. For more information, see How to Implement an MI Provider.

 

The following table describes the contents in this section.

Topic	Description
Providing Data to WMI	Provides an overview of the steps involved in creating a WMI provider.
Developing a WMI Provider	Describes tasks you must perform when creating various types of WMI providers.