

(The secret goal of this series is to capture how you need to configure your project to get it to build. Games section 3rd Kettler Cup 8 games Herzeliya International Tournament 66 games Krynica Zonal Tournament 1.4 126. This series repeats the above exercise in desktop apps in various languages, each one getting easier than the previous one. Okay, now you can build and run the program, and it’ll tell you your system’s serial number as recorded in the SMBIOS.Īnd fortunately you didn’t have to go parsing the system firmware table yourself.

Let’s do it the hard way.įrom Visual Studio, create a new C++ Console Application that goes like this: Therefore, it is preferable to get it in advance. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.

SmbiosInformation runtime class which parses out the serial number for you. Getting the computer’s serial number used to be an arduous task of getting the system firmware table, and then manually parsing the SMBIOS information looking for the serial number.
