Hi,

I would like to be able to retrieve a partial result set. For example,
suppose I am running 4 processes and each one hosts a single decoupled
provider. If I wanted to get a count of the instances I can do something
like:

ManagementScope s = new ...
ManagementPath p = new ...
ManagementClass c = new ...
coll = c.GetInstances();
int i = collection.Count;

This works fine until one of the processes has a problem and doesn't return
back to WMI. In that case the call coll.Count blocks indefinitely.

I can get around this with the following:

EnumerationOptions e = new EnumerationOptions();
e.TimeOut = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 1);
coll = c.GetInstances(null, e);
int i = 0;

try
{
int i = coll.Count;
}
catch(ManagementException) {}

This doesn't block indefintely, but it always returns 0, even though only
one of the host processes is having a problem. Is there a way to get a
partial resultset? Isn't there a way to retrieve the instances hosted by
the remaining healthy processes?

Thanks
Steven