Retrieving system information

[kurotsuke]

How can I retrieve the amount of RAM installed on the system and if
the user has the Administrator privileges?

Thanks a lot.

[Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]]

Re: Retrieving system information

Use performance counters...

Sample code;

System.Diagnost ics.Performance Counter pCounter = new
System.Diagnost ics.Performance Counter();

pCounter.Counte rName = "System Code Total Bytes";

pCounter.Catego ryName = "Memory";

Console.WriteLi ne( pCounter.RawVal ue.ToString() );

pCounter.Counte rName = "Available MBytes";

Console.WriteLi ne(pCounter.Raw Value.ToString( ));

Console.Read();


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Thanks,
Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN
BSc, MCSD.NET

"kurotsuke" <kurotsuke@yaho o.it> wrote in message
news:rek3b152lj ga4mh7re644nmpv nlh1ftolk@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
> How can I retrieve the amount of RAM installed on the system and if
> the user has the Administrator privileges?
>
> Thanks a lot.[/color]

[kurotsuke]

Re: Retrieving system information

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:52:15 +0300, "Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]"
<yemre@msakadem ik.net> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Use performance counters...
>
>Sample code;
>
>System.Diagnos tics.Performanc eCounter pCounter = new
>System.Diagnos tics.Performanc eCounter();
>
>pCounter.Count erName = "System Code Total Bytes";
>
>pCounter.Categ oryName = "Memory";
>
>Console.WriteL ine( pCounter.RawVal ue.ToString() );
>
>pCounter.Count erName = "Available MBytes";
>
>Console.WriteL ine(pCounter.Ra wValue.ToString ());
>
>Console.Read() ;[/color]

I'm getting an exception on the WriteLine. Any idea on how to fix
that?
Thanks.

[kurotsuke]

Re: Retrieving system information

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:52:15 +0300, "Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]"
<yemre@msakadem ik.net> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Use performance counters...
>
>Sample code;
>
>System.Diagnos tics.Performanc eCounter pCounter = new
>System.Diagnos tics.Performanc eCounter();
>
>pCounter.Count erName = "System Code Total Bytes";
>
>pCounter.Categ oryName = "Memory";
>
>Console.WriteL ine( pCounter.RawVal ue.ToString() );
>
>pCounter.Count erName = "Available MBytes";
>
>Console.WriteL ine(pCounter.Ra wValue.ToString ());
>
>Console.Read() ;[/color]

I got the message telling me that the category doesn't exist. It looks
like the problem is with both Memory and Available MBytes

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: Retrieving system information

kurotsuke <kurotsuke@yaho o.it> wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
> >System.Diagnos tics.Performanc eCounter pCounter = new
> >System.Diagnos tics.Performanc eCounter();
> >
> >pCounter.Count erName = "System Code Total Bytes";
> >
> >pCounter.Categ oryName = "Memory";
> >
> >Console.WriteL ine( pCounter.RawVal ue.ToString() );
> >
> >pCounter.Count erName = "Available MBytes";
> >
> >Console.WriteL ine(pCounter.Ra wValue.ToString ());
> >
> >Console.Read() ;[/color]
>
> I'm getting an exception on the WriteLine. Any idea on how to fix
> that?[/color]

It would help if you'd say exactly what the exception is.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

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