For those who are wondering why I’m not blogging very regularly: It’s not that I’m lying on my back and sun-bathing on the beach or anything (which was never been an option since it has been snowing a lot), I'm just rather busy lately. I was doing a SP1 evaluation earlier, for which MS has granted me a prestigious award for ‘Most Valuable Debugger’. It’s a kind of a joke, but nevertheless I’m very proud and amused at the same time :-). I guess I will have ......
I’ve seen numerous handy WMI scripts and code samples from fellow BizTalk bloggers and from the BizTalk help. Amazingly every one of these samples use late-bound objects calls to invoke methods and access properties from the BizTalk management objects. This makes the code rather verbose, it’s very inconvenient and also very error prone. There's a better way to write your WMI code. Therefore you have to download first and then install the 'Management (WMI) Extensions for Visual Studio ......