if you want to run like query in WMI
then you can use below example:
using System;
using System.Management;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace WMISample
{
public class MyWMIQuery
{
public static void Main()
{
try
{
string strSearchText="win";
string strSearchQuery=string.Format("SELECT * FROM Win32_Service where Name like '%{0}%'",strSearchText);
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2",strSearchQuery );
foreach (ManagementObject queryObj in searcher.Get())
{
Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine("Win32_Service instance");
Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", queryObj["Name"]);
}
}
catch (ManagementException e)
{
MessageBox.Show("An error occurred while querying for WMI data: " + e.Message);
}
}
}
}
But you can not apply like
query on Win32_PNPDevice
as discussed