Detect the graphics card programmatically with Visual Basic

Detect the name of the graphics card

Is it possible to detect the name of the graphics card from the .Net code? Yes, it is possible to use WMI. But you need to reference the System.Management and import it.

Windows Administration Instrumentation

WMI is a large library that contains the details on various components necessary for the system to function. Information related to hard drive, processor information, network components, and the list goes on. It’s really easy to look at the data if you know a little about how it’s organized.

Using WMI to get the name of the graphics card

WMI can be used to query a lot of information about hardware and information related to operating systems. ManagementObjectSearcher can be used to query the data. Accepts two parameters. The first parameter is to say which section to look for called scope. And the second parameter is the actual query almost similar to the SQL query. Using the Get method of ManagementObjectSearcher will return the result set in a collection.

Source code

Import System.

Public class form1

Private Sub Button1_Click (ByVal sender As System.Object, _

ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

MsgBox (GetGraphicsCardName ())

End Sub

GetGraphicsCardName () private function as string

Dim GraphicsCardName = String.Empty

Try

Dim WmiSelect as new ManagementObjectSearcher _

(“rootCIMV2”, “SELECT * FROM Win32_VideoController”)

For each WmiResults as ManagementObject in WmiSelect.Get ()

GraphicsCardName = WmiResults.GetPropertyValue (“Name”). ToString

If (No String.IsNullOrEmpty (GraphicsCardName)) Then

Go out for

It will end if

next

Catch err as ManagementException

MessageBox.Show (error message)

End attempt

Return GraphicsCardName

Final function

Final class