hardware

[Norvin Laudon]

Does .Net have any classes to communicate directly with the hardware? (i.e.:
writing directly to I/O addresses)

Thanks,
Norvin

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Re: hardware

Norvin,

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but have you
considered the WMI classes (the classes in the System.Manageme nt namespace).
You should be able to access most hardware statistics through there.

Hope this helps.

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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Re: hardware

Norvin Laudon wrote:
|| Does .Net have any classes to communicate directly with the
|| hardware? (i.e.: writing directly to I/O addresses)
||
|| Thanks,
|| Norvin

No, modern OSses like Windows don't even allow you to access the HW from user space, this is a privilege held by device drivers
only.
Writing device drivers is reserved for native code only (C/C++, Assembly languages).

Willy.