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Bienz.SysInfo |
Preface
I have noticed other articles where users are attempting to gain access to
system information available only via old Win32 APIs. Although it is easy enough
to obtain this information, I have noticed it occurring rather frequently.
This library was developed to group some of these APIs and make them more accessible
in the .NET way - the way I feel Microsoft should have included them in the
first place.
As of the writing of this article, the only class in the library deals with
storage APIs. I plan to eventually expand this library to deal with many other
system APIs. Currently, Bienz.SysInfo provides access to the
following information:
- Volume Type (Removable, Fixed, Remote / Network, CD-ROM, RAMDisk, etc.)
- Volume Label
- Volume Serial Number
- UNC Network Path (even if constructed from mapped drive letter)
- Large Icon as presented by the Shell (32x32)
- Small Icon as presented by the Shell (16x16)
- Supporting Properties (such as
SupportsCompression and SupportsEncryption)
The VolumeInfo Class
Public Static (Shared) Properties
Public Instance Properties
- CaseSensitive
- Compressed
- Flags
- Label
- LargeIcon
- MaxComponentLen
- PersistentACLS
- PreservesCase
- ReadOnly
- SerialNumber
- SmallIcon
- SupportsEncryption
- SupportsFileCompression
- SupportsNamedStreams
- SupportsObjectIDs
- SupportsQuotas
- SupportsReparsePoints
- SupportsSparseFiles
- SupportsUnicodeOnVolume
- UncPath
- Uri
- VolumeType
VolumeFlags enumeration
- Unknown
- CaseSensitive
- Compressed
- PersistentACLS
- PreservesCase
- ReadOnly
- SupportsEncryption
- SupportsFileCompression
- SupportsNamedStreams
- SupportsObjectIDs
- SupportsQuotas
- SupportsReparsePoints
- SupportsSparseFiles
- SupportsUnicodeOnVolume
VolumeTypes enumeration
- Unknown
- Invalid
- Removable
- Fixed
- Remote
- CDROM
- RAMDisk
For an example use of this library, please check out my Bienz.UI library.
Bienz.UI includes a drive drop-down control that displays all
drives in the system as well as their labels and icons. The SelectedItem
property of this control returns an instance of the VolumeInformation
class from Bienz.SysInfo.
