Using ManagementObject to retrieve a single WMI property

Question

This probably isn't the best way, but I am currently retrieving the amount of RAM on a machine using:

manageObjSearch.Query = new ObjectQuery("SELECT TotalVisibleMemorySize FROM Win32_OperatingSystem");
manageObjCol = manageObjSearch.Get();

foreach (ManagementObject mo in manageObjCol)
 sizeInKilobytes = Convert.ToInt64(mo["TotalVisibleMemorySize"]);

It works well and good, but I feel I could be doing this more directly and without a foreach over a single element, but I can't figure out how to index a ManagementObjectCollection

I want to do something like this:

ManagementObject mo = new ManagementObject("Win32_OperatingSystem.TotalVisibleMemorySize")
mo.Get();

Console.WriteLine(mo["TotalVisibleMemorySize"].ToString())

or maybe even something like

ManagementClass mc = new ManagementClass("Win32_OperatingSystem");
Console.WriteLine(mc.GetPropertyValue("TotalVisibleMemorySize").ToString());

I just can't seem to figure it out. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The foreach statement is hiding the enumerator you need to access. You can do it directly like this:

        var enu = manageObjSearch.Get().GetEnumerator();
        if (!enu.MoveNext()) throw new Exception("Unexpected WMI query failure");
        long sizeInKilobytes = Convert.ToInt64(enu.Current["TotalVisibleMemorySize"]);