Get SSID of the wireless network I am connected to with C# .Net on Windows Vista

I resolved using the library. It resulted to be quite easy to work with the classes provided:

First I had to create a WlanClient object

wlan = new WlanClient();

And then I can get the list of the SSIDs the PC is connected to with this code:

Collection<String> connectedSsids = new Collection<string>();

foreach (WlanClient.WlanInterface wlanInterface in wlan.Interfaces)
{
   Wlan.Dot11Ssid ssid = wlanInterface.CurrentConnection.wlanAssociationAttributes.dot11Ssid;
   connectedSsids.Add(new String(Encoding.ASCII.GetChars(ssid.SSID,0, (int)ssid.SSIDLength)));
}

We were using the managed wifi library, but it throws exceptions if the network is disconnected during a query.

Try:

var process = new Process
{
    StartInfo =
    {
    FileName = "netsh.exe",
    Arguments = "wlan show interfaces",
    UseShellExecute = false,
    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
    CreateNoWindow = true
    }
};
process.Start();

var output = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
var line = output.Split(new[] { Environment.NewLine }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).FirstOrDefault(l => l.Contains("SSID") && !l.Contains("BSSID"));
if (line == null)
{
    return string.Empty;
}
var ssid = line.Split(new[] { ":" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)[1].TrimStart();
return ssid;

It looks like this will do what you want:

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\WMI",
"SELECT * FROM MSNdis_80211_ServiceSetIdentifier");


foreach (ManagementObject queryObj in searcher.Get())
{
    Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
    Console.WriteLine("MSNdis_80211_ServiceSetIdentifier instance");
    Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");

    if(queryObj["Ndis80211SsId"] == null)
        Console.WriteLine("Ndis80211SsId: {0}",queryObj["Ndis80211SsId"]);
    else
    {
        Byte[] arrNdis80211SsId = (Byte[])
        (queryObj["Ndis80211SsId"]);
        foreach (Byte arrValue in arrNdis80211SsId)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Ndis80211SsId: {0}", arrValue);
        }
    }
}

from http://bytes.com/groups/net-c/657473-wmi-wifi-discovery