Currently I am working on getting system information via a Silverlight Embedded Application tied with a Silverlight Desktop App (running in trusted mode), as this is the only method available to gather system information from a user without them tweaking their registry beforehand.
What I am wondering is if there is a more seemless way to gather system hardware information from Windows, silverlight would be fairly seemless but it requires that registry tweak in order to collect the data via a embedded app. Can Flash do this without a desktop component?
Mainly just looking for a way to in-browser fetch user system hardware information, RAM, CPU and etc. Obviously the user needs to grant permission, but something fully embedded would be awesome. Any suggestions?
Given that you already have invested in Silverlight, I would say that you should take a look at Silverlight v5.
It has much improved p/invoke capabilities that you can take advantage of.
For example: Enumerating MIDI interfaces, Getting monitor resolution is some examples to get you started.