Get BIOS Date

[rhtbhegade]

HI Experts, I want to get the BIOS date in my project.Inspite of change in the date from the "Date and Time Properties" the date that i want is the date in the BIOS.

[himanshu2561]

Hi Try this <pre>             RegistryKey RK = Registry.LocalMachine;             RK = RK.OpenSubKey("HARDWARE\\DESCRIPTION\\System\\");             Object Date = RK.GetValue("SystemBiosDate");             string ss = Date.ToString(); </pre>

himanshu

[Tamer Oz]

You can quety WMI with System.Management Namespace Here is an example. ReleaseDate property is what you are looking for

   private void Form1\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        List("Select \* from Win32\_BIOS");
    }

    private void List(string query)
    {
        ManagementObjectSearcher m = new ManagementObjectSearcher();
        m.Query = new ObjectQuery(query);
        foreach (ManagementObject mo in m.Get())
        {
            foreach (PropertyData pd in mo.Properties)
            {
                if (mo\[pd.Name\] != null)
                {
                    if (mo\[pd.Name\] is string\[\])
                    {
                        foreach (string s in (string\[\])mo\[pd.Name\])
                        {
                            MessageBox.Show(s);
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        MessageBox.Show(pd.Name + ":" + mo\[pd.Name\].ToString());
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

[rhtbhegade]

i could not find the system.management namespace please help......

[Tamer Oz]

Have you tried adding reference to a .net library and search that list for System.Management. System.Management dll is in .net since 1.1 version.

[rhtbhegade]

Thanks.....

[Fred 34]

very good answer thanks. only mention to use these 2 lines b4 them using System.Security.Permissions; using Microsoft.Win32;