The BCD WMI API gives developers essentially complete control over the contents of a store. It allows developers to create applications that use custom boot data or make complex changes to a store that are difficult or impossible with BCDEdit. Applications based on the WMI API can be run locally or remotely.
The BCD WMI provider consists of a scriptable set of classes that support programmatic access to BCD stores. The classes are exposed as COM objects, which allows applications to also be implemented in C++. Although the BCD WMI provider was written primarily for Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, it can also be used with Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and recovery environments that support WMI.
This section provides a brief summary of the capabilities of the BCD WMI provider. For detailed information, see the documentation in the MSDN Library. For some examples of how to use the WMI API for specific tasks, see “BCD Cookbook,” later in this paper.
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