I am very new to Win7 and WMI. Please advice me where to see for active access point from WiFi and how to get ssid/rssi for each access point.
I have use:
ManagementClass mc = new ManagementClass("root\\WMI", "MSNdis_80211_ServiceSetIdentifier", null);
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher1 = new ManagementObjectSearcher(@"root\wmi","SELECT * FROM MSNdis_80211_BSSIList");
but I got 0 results. Is this class support Win7? Anybody can help?
I had a similar problem where I needed to get the SSID of the currently connected Wifi network but didnt feel like creating a wrapper for the API due to its complexity so figured why not use netsh
ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo("netsh", "wlan show interfaces");
info.WorkingDirectory = @"%WINDIR%\system32";
info.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
info.CreateNoWindow = true;
info.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
info.UseShellExecute = false;
System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc.StartInfo = info;
proc.Start();
then you can just retrieve the output from proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
parse out what you want from the string:
"\r\n There is 1 interface on the system: \r\n\r\n
Name : Wireless Network Connection\r\n
Description : Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter\r\n
GUID : xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx\r\n
Physical address : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx\r\n
State : connected\r\n
SSID : Dynex2\r\n
BSSID : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx\r\n
Network type : Infrastructure\r\n
Radio type : 802.11g\r\n
Authentication : WPA2-Personal\r\n
Cipher : CCMP\r\n
Connection mode : Auto Connect\r\n
Channel : 1\r\n
Receive rate (Mbps) : 54\r\n
Transmit rate (Mbps) : 54\r\n
Signal : 100% \r\n
Profile : Dynex2 \r\n\r\n
Hosted network status : Not available\r\n\r\n"
Much easier to parse a string than to write a wrapper for the API
Hope this helps
Instead of WMI you can use the Managed Wifi API.
Check this question
Get SSID of the wireless network I am connected to with C# .Net on Windows Vista
Some time a go i wrote an example using delphi-prism, is very similar to C#.
http://theroadtodelphi.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/detecting-wifi-networks-using-delphi-prism/