Detect hardware in vb6 project

Asked By jabez zion 10 points N/A Posted on - 11/06/2012

I have a provision I feel a distinct desire to detect hardware in VB6 project, ensure by needing my users to enroll. I moreover prefer to guarantee that they lack the capacity to establish on more than two machines. To do this I ought to know where to recognize a novel fittings ID number, and use that in the enrollment code. 

All I ought to know is the way to get that number utilizing code. 

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Answered By Toni Linscomb 5 points N/A #132676

Detect hardware in vb6 project

 

To access the computer hardware configuration you can use the FileSystemObject and iterate through the list of hardware information. Check the below link for more details.

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_get_drive_information.html

If you want to access a hardware component which is plugged into your computer system you need to get some specific information from the hardware vendor otherwise it’s not possible to access a hardware device and change its activities.

Programming will be totally different depending on the type of hardware and the vendor of the hardware.

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