---
title: "[Tool] WMI Strongly Typed Class Generator"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/20/tool-wmi-strongly-typed-class-generator.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/20/tool-wmi-strongly-typed-class-generator.html"
published: "2004-04-20T18:36:00"
updated: "2004-04-20T18:36:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "WMI rocks, but it's common to be afraid of it. Yosi points to a very cool tool that will help overcome this fear and make working with WMI a little easier: Microsoft (R) Management Strongly Typed Class Generator -…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# \[Tool\] WMI Strongly Typed Class Generator

By Roy Osherove April 20, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 20, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

WMI rocks, but it's common to be afraid of it. Yosi points to a very cool tool that will help overcome this fear and make working with WMI a little easier: [Microsoft (R) Management Strongly Typed Class Generator - MgmtClassGen.exe](http://blogs.msdn.com/yosit/archive/2004/04/19/116043.aspx)

_Example :
        MgmtclassGen Win32\_Logicaldisk /L VB /N root\\cimv2 /P c:\\temp\\logicaldisk.vb_

_You can find it under you sdk bin directory, so instead of figuring out the properties of the objects you get a strongly type object to work with._

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