Other Languages - how to get the names of the Connections??

Asked By akshay on 12-Oct-11 07:20 AM

how can I get a local area connection name (the string, exactly as I see it

in Network Connections)? I looked in iphelper functions, but I can only

obtain the adaptor name, but not the connection name itself.

I need this name to be able to pass it to netsh.exe program to setup IP

adress, subnet mask ant gateway address programmatically

(so I call "netsh.exe interface ip set address "Connection name" static IP

SUBNET GATEWAY 1").... Need the solutin in Visual C++(MFC)..

Thanks in advance

Akshay...

Srikanth K replied to akshay on 12-Oct-11 07:27 AM

That's what I get for not reading the question close enough. :-/

See if this works out better for you:

    
            ManagementScope oMs = new ManagementScope();  
        
            ObjectQuery oQuery =  
        
              new ObjectQuery("Select * From Win32_NetworkAdapter");  
        
            ManagementObjectSearcher oSearcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(oMs, oQuery);  
        
            ManagementObjectCollection oReturnCollection = oSearcher.Get();  
        
            foreach (ManagementObject oReturn in oReturnCollection)  
        
              if (oReturn.Properties["NetConnectionID"].Value != null)  
        
                Console.WriteLine("Name : " + oReturn.Properties["NetConnectionID"].Value);

On my machine that returns:

Name : Local Area Connection
Name : Wireless Network Connection

Sound more like what you're after?

smr replied to akshay on 12-Oct-11 07:35 AM

HI

this should work

System.Management.ManagementScope oMs = new System.Management.ManagementScope();

System.Management.ObjectQuery oQuery =

new System.Management.ObjectQuery("Select * From Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration");

ManagementObjectSearcher oSearcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(oMs, oQuery);

ManagementObjectCollection oReturnCollection = oSearcher.Get();

foreach (ManagementObject oReturn in oReturnCollection)

Console.WriteLine("Name : " + oReturn["Description"].ToString());

Make sure you add a reference to System.Management