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Asked: 2026-05-22T19:28:18+00:00

I was just reading about the ManagementScope class on MSDN and it said something

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I was just reading about the ManagementScope class on MSDN and it said something that confused me.

The example connects to a namespace on a remote computer.

Huh? What is a “namespace on a remote computer”? I thought a namespace was an artificial way to group functionality together. Wikipedia says a namespace is “an abstract container or environment created to hold a logical grouping of unique identifiers or symbols”.

What is MSDN talking about?

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    The documentation refers to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) namespaces. Which groups WMI objects into a hierarchy just like namespaces in the BCL. In WMI security and access to objects are set on namespace level.

    From the WMI Glossary – Namespace:

    A categorization of classes and instances used to control their scope and visibility. Namespaces are not physical locations. They are more like logical databases containing specific classes and instances. Namespaces are represented by the __Namespace system class or a class derived from it.

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