Public Sub SoftwareInformationVBS(ByVal strComputer As String, ByVal strUserName As String, ByVal strPwd As String) Dim objWMIService, objFSO, objTextFile, colSoftware, objSoftware, objSWbemLocator Try objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") objTextFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("c:\software.txt", True) objSWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") If (strComputer = Environment.MachineName.ToString) Then objWMIService = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer(strComputer, "root\cimv2") Else objWMIService = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer(strComputer, "root\cimv2", strUserName, strPwd) End If objWMIService.Security_.ImpersonationLevel = 3 colSoftware = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Product") objTextFile.WriteLine("Caption" & vbTab & _ "Description" & vbTab & "Identifying Number" & vbTab & _ "Install Date" & vbTab & "Install Location" & vbTab & _ "Install State" & vbTab & "Name" & vbTab & _ "Package Cache" & vbTab & "SKU Number" & vbTab & "Vendor" & vbTab _ & "Version") For Each objSoftware In colSoftware objTextFile.WriteLine(objSoftware.Caption & vbTab & _ objSoftware.Description & vbTab & _ objSoftware.IdentifyingNumber & vbTab & _ objSoftware.InstallDate2 & vbTab & _ objSoftware.InstallLocation & vbTab & _ objSoftware.InstallState & vbTab & _ objSoftware.Name & vbTab & _ objSoftware.PackageCache & vbTab & _ objSoftware.SKUNumber & vbTab & _ objSoftware.Vendor & vbTab & _ objSoftware.Version) Next objTextFile.Close() Catch ex As Exception End Try End Sub
"Ping" is very basic utility for every network programmer. Here we will discuss ping a computer in Network using VB.Net. We have two methods for pinging a computer. Method 1: Here we will use VB.Net NetworkInformation NameSpace. Public Sub PingStatus(ByVal strComputer As String) Dim pingSender As Ping = New Ping() Dim options As PingOptions = New PingOptions() options.DontFragment = True 'Create a buffer of 32 bytes of data to be transmitted Dim data As String = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" Dim buffer As Byte() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data) Dim timeout As Integer = 120 Dim reply As PingReply = pingSender.Send(strComputer, timeout, buffer, options) If (reply.Status = IPStatus.Success) Then MessageBox.Show("Ping Successed.") Else MessageBox.Show("Ping Faild.") End If End Sub Method 2: Here we are using .Net inbuil...