"Welcome to System Programming with VB.Net"

Welcome to System Programming with VB.Net

"Welcome to System Programming with VB.Net

This is a growing collection of VB.Net source code and articles written and maintained by Emmet Gray. Most examples provided here are either technical demonstration projects for learning purposes, examples that perform low-level "system" functions, or complete applications that system administrators might find useful.

If you learn best by reading an example, then this web site is for you! I've written articles that provide example VB.Net source code with detailed explanations and comments. The example code referenced in the articles is also available for download as a complete VB.Net solutions. …"

Admin Tools

“SOSOS is a hardware and software inventory program that gathers approximately 200 pieces of information about PCs including hardware information such as CPU, memory, hard drives, and serial numbers; software information such as operating system, installed software, and software components; configuration information such as IP address, running processes, and services; and security-related information such as shared resources, modems, account policies, security patches, and virus activity. The information can be stored in a relational database on a central database server. SOSOS can be configured to run in the background during login or can be used in the “Admin mode” to poll remote PCs for their data.”

“Son of Snoop on Steroids (SOSOS)” is an interesting VB.Net 2003 project. Using a number of methods, it gathers a great deal of system data (either local or remote systems). Much of the info is gathered via WMI, but there’s some that is gathered manually (i.e. from file system logs or registry scans, etc). For example, there’s a (Norton Anti-Virus) NAV info that reports on NAV versions, updates and virus activity (by finding and parsing the NAV logs). The data can then be stored in an Access MDB or text file.

Make sure you check out the rest of Emmet’s site to see his other system utilities, code snips, articles, etc.