Get the Installed Software Details of Your System in Windows Form

Introduction

This article explains how to get the installed Software details of your system. Here I will get the information from the Win32_Product class.

What Win32_Product is

The Win32_Product WMI class represents products as they are installed by Windows Installer. A product generally correlates to one installation package.

Design

Create a new Windows Forms Application Project.

Add one button control and one DataGrid to the form.

Design your screen as in the following screen:

Next add a reference for "System.Management".

To add the reference use the following procedure.

Go to Solution Explorer, select the project and right-click on that and choose "Add Reference" from the menu.

A window will open; in that choose the ".Net" tab.



It will show a list. In that list, choose "System.Management" and click the "OK" Button.

Now go to code view

Add the namespace "using System.Management;".

Write the following code in the Button Click event:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Management;
using System.Globalization;
namespace GetSoftwareDetails
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Name", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("InstallLocation", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Instal Date", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("InstallState", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Vendor", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Version", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("PackageName", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("InstallSource", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Language", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("LocalPackage", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("PackageCache", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("PackageCode", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("HelpTelephone", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("AssignmentType", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Caption", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Description", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("IdentifyingNumber", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("ProductID", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("RegOwner", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("RegCompany", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("SKUNumber", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Transforms", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("URLInfoAbout", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("URLUpdateInfo", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("HelpLink", typeof(string)));
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("WordCount", typeof(string)));
SelectQuery Sq = new SelectQuery("Win32_Product");
ManagementObjectSearcher objOSDetails = new ManagementObjectSearcher(Sq);
ManagementObjectCollection osDetailsCollection = objOSDetails.Get();
foreach (ManagementObject MO in osDetailsCollection)
{
DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
dr["Name"] = MO["Name"].ToString();
dr["AssignmentType"] = MO["AssignmentType"].ToString();
dr["Caption"] = MO["Caption"];
dr["Description"] = MO["Description"];
dr["IdentifyingNumber"] = MO["IdentifyingNumber"];
dr["InstallLocation"] = MO["InstallLocation"];
var newDate = DateTime.ParseExact(MO["InstallDate"].ToString(), "yyyyMMdd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
dr["Instal Date"] = newDate;
dr["InstallState"] = MO["InstallState"];
dr["HelpLink"] = MO["HelpLink"];
dr["HelpTelephone"] = MO["HelpTelephone"];
dr["InstallSource"] = MO["InstallSource"];
dr["Language"] = MO["Language"];
dr["LocalPackage"] = MO["LocalPackage"];
dr["PackageCache"] = MO["PackageCache"];
dr["PackageCode"] = MO["PackageCode"];
dr["PackageName"] = MO["PackageName"];
dr["InstallState"] = MO["InstallState"];
dr["ProductID"] = MO["ProductID"];
dr["RegOwner"] = MO["RegOwner"];
dr["RegCompany"] = MO["RegCompany"];
dr["SKUNumber"] = MO["SKUNumber"];
dr["Transforms"] = MO["Transforms"];
dr["URLInfoAbout"] = MO["URLInfoAbout"];
dr["URLUpdateInfo"] = MO["URLUpdateInfo"];
dr["Vendor"] = MO["Vendor"];
dr["WordCount"] = MO["WordCount"];
dr["Version"] = MO["Version"];
dt.Rows.Add(dr);
}
dataGridView1.DataSource = dt;
}
}
}

In the code above I am getting the information from Win32_Product Store the data into a data table and showing it in a DataGrid on a button click.