[VB6] Get extended details about MMC snap-in windows

[yereverluvinuncleber]

Fafalone's post here explained how to obtain extended details from Explorer, for me, particularly useful, was the path.

https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....ir-IFolderView

I am interested in obtaining similar information from running Management Console snap-ins.

If you fire up MMC console snapins from the command line or the GUI, eg. diskmgmt.msc, then task manager only reports the existence of the MMC binary and does not report the name of the plugin currently running.

I'm interested in extracting the name of the snapin ie. diskmgmt, compmgmt or eventvwr. Does anyone have links to code VB6 or otherwise, that has this functionality or alternatively any working ideas as to how this might be accomplished?

[fafalone]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...n-object-model - Microsoft Management Console 2.0 should be in your References list.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...ectedfrom=MSDN

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...ectedfrom=MSDN

[yereverluvinuncleber]

Thanks Faf. Doesn't seem to be a lot of information on t'net about querying MMC plugins and I can't find much pre-existing code. Looks like mucking about with it in programmatically wasn't that popular. More digging to do.

[fafalone]

I believe there's at least one sample in the SDK as well as the examples in the links.