CIM IDE, which stands for Common Information Model IDE, is a Visual Studio 2010 extension that supports development of new WMI providers and exposing their functionality via PowerShell. CIM IDE implements the following functionality
- Parsing of DMTF MOF files, including parsing the CIM Schema files
- Editing new, user defined, classes that may inherit form the CIM Schema classes
- Validation of user-defined collection of classes (user model)
- Generation of WMI v2 provider skeletons for selected classes in the model
- Editing of the meta-data used by PowerShell to access WMI providers
The CIM IDE UI is integrated into the Visual studio UX and contains
- CIM explorer that supports navigation through large CIM models that may include hundreds of CIM Schema classes and associations
- CIM class detailed view that includes all inherited and class-defined features and associations in which the class participates
- Colorizing MOF editor
- Form-based editor of the PowerShell meta-data files called CDXML, which define how PowerShell calls the WMI providers
- Two kinds of Visual Studio projects
- modeling projects for editing CIM classes, and
- C/C++ provider implementation projects
- Validation errors and integrated with the Visual Studio error window
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