Retrieve wifi access point information

Question

Hi, I was just going thro the Networking APIs and had a question on how to retrieve the available wifi access point information and their signal strength. I couldn't use the ConnectionProfile class to retrieve all the Wifi access points...Is there a way to do it?? I'm basically looking at something similar to what the "netsh wlan show networks mode=Bssid" would return me. Is it possible at all with the Metro WinRT APIs that are available??

thanks

Easwar

Answer 1

The ProvisioningAgent.provisionFromXml() would allow you to push a set of WLAN profiles to Windows.  You cannot access the scan list or issue connect/disconnect requests.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.networking.networkoperators.provisioningagent.provisionfromxmldocumentasync.aspx#Y288

Answer 2

Hi Eric - Thanks for the link. Just a quick question - can we run the above command "netsh wlan show networks mode=Bssid" from a metro app using something like a Process.Start(/*command prompt.exe*/) or a similar one?? Is that allowed from within a Metro app?

thanks

Easwar

Answer 3

Easwar,

That is not allowed.

Best Wishes - Eric