Issue
Please, advise how I can get the Vault version and some other information from my code.
Solution
The Autodesk.Connectivity.WebServices.InformationService class is designed for this purpose. You may find useful this post about it in the Doug Redmond’s blog.
Ok, let’s show how to work with it in a short sample.
I will use my MyVaultServiceManager class from this post to connect to the server. It will let me to write the sample as simple like this:
// A sample how to work with the Vault InformationService //================================================================= class InfoServiceSample { // Show some information about the current Vault server //=============================================================== public static void ShowServerInfo() { // Establish a connection to the server using (MyVaultServiceManager mgr = new MyVaultServiceManager( MyVaultServiceManager.Mode.ReadOnly)) { try { // Print the server name string svrInfo = "Server:t" + mgr.Services.InformationService.GetServerName(); // Print all products available Product[] PdSupported = mgr.Services.InformationService.GetSupportedProducts(); svrInfo += "nProduct List:" + "n-------------------------------------------"; foreach (Product Pd in PdSupported) { svrInfo += "n Product Name:tt " + Pd.ProductName + "n Product Version:tt " + Pd.ProductVersion + "n Product Display Name:t " + Pd.DisplayName + "n - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"; } MessageBox.Show(svrInfo, "Server Info"); } catch (System.Exception err) { MessageBox.Show(err.ToString()); } } } // ShowServerInfo() } // class InfoServiceSampleOn my system this code produces the following result:
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