Detecting a Hard Drive's Serial Number in Visual Basic .Net

 Hello world. In this tutorial I am sharing to you a sample code in Visual Basic.Net to  retrieve a hard drive's serial number. 

 We will be using a DLL I created named Hardware.dll. To use it just add it as reference to your project and import it using the following:

Imports Hardware.DriverUtility

 Now let us use the dll in our .NET Program. Using Visual Studio. Create a console application and paste the following code. 

Imports Hardware.DriverUtility
Module TestDriveSerial
    Sub Main()
        Console.WriteLine("Long Serial Number: " & SerialNumber())
        Console.WriteLine("Hex Serial Number: " & Hex(SerialNumber()))
        Console.ReadKey()
    End Sub
End Module

 The function SerialNumber() returns a Long data type. If the driver is not ready it returns  -1 value.

Download Hardware.dll  Download TestDriveSerial Project

 You may download the DLL and sample project above. Please don't hesitate to comment below.

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