I've written some code to initialise COM and enumerate the network adapters attached to the PC by querying the Win32_NetworkAdapter class using WMI. The reason I need to use WMI is that the adapter I need to enumerate is disabled at the time but I still need to find out its InterfaceIndex, and using GetInterfaceInfo only detects enabled adapters. It all compiles and runs but at the line:
hr = pEnumerator->Next(WBEM_INFINITE, 1, &pClassObj, &ulReturnVal);
which is meant to retrieve the very first adapter, it returns no devices and a garbage HRESULT. I used the example on this page as my guidance.
CoInitialize(NULL); // Initialize COM
HRESULT hr = NULL;
hr = CoInitializeSecurity(
NULL, // security descriptor
-1, // use this simple setting
NULL, // use this simple setting
NULL, // reserved
RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_DEFAULT, // authentication level
RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_IMPERSONATE, // impersonation level
NULL, // use this simple setting
EOAC_NONE, // no special capabilities
NULL); // reserved
if (FAILED(hr))
{
CoUninitialize();
return -1;
}
IWbemLocator *pLoc = 0;
hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_WbemLocator, 0,
CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IWbemLocator, (LPVOID *) &pLoc);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
CoUninitialize();
return -1; // Program has failed.
}
IWbemServices *pSvc = 0;
// Connect to the root\default namespace with the current user.
hr = pLoc->ConnectServer( _bstr_t(L"ROOT\\CIMV2"), NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, 0, &pSvc);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
pLoc->Release();
CoUninitialize();
return -1; // Program has failed.
}
hr = CoSetProxyBlanket(pSvc, RPC_C_AUTHN_WINNT, RPC_C_AUTHZ_NONE, NULL, RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_CALL,
RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_IMPERSONATE, NULL, EOAC_NONE);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
pSvc->Release();
pLoc->Release();
CoUninitialize();
return -1; // Program has failed.
}
IEnumWbemClassObject* pEnumerator = NULL;
hr = pSvc->ExecQuery(bstr_t("WQL"), bstr_t("SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter"),
WBEM_FLAG_FORWARD_ONLY | WBEM_FLAG_RETURN_IMMEDIATELY, NULL, &pEnumerator);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
pSvc->Release();
pLoc->Release();
CoUninitialize();
return -1;
}
IWbemClassObject *pClassObj;
ULONG ulReturnVal;
while ( pEnumerator )
{
hr = pEnumerator->Next(WBEM_INFINITE, 1, &pClassObj, &ulReturnVal);
// code would go here to obtain the adapter properties.
pClassObj->Release();
}
return -1;