determine how many file sharing connections available in XP pro

Is it possible in .Net (preferably C#, but VB.net is fine also) to create an application that would monitor the number of concurrent file sharing connections to a particular machine to warn us if we are about to hit the XP Pro limit of 10? What .NET/Windows method/class would I access to get this information? Right now we get the error message: "No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept." however I want to write a monitor that would let us know exactly how many connections are used/free before we get to this point.

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I believe that you can get that information with WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), and the Win32_ServerSession class.

Here is an example, using a Win32_ServerSession query:

// Add a reference to the System.Management.dll to your project.
//
// Source:
//    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2905312&SiteID=1
 
using System;
using System.Management;
using System.Collections.Generic;
 
public class Win32_ServerSession
{
 
    public List<ResourceUsage> GetOpenFiles()
    {
        
        SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("Select ComputerName, UserName, ResourcesOpened From Win32_ServerSession");
 
        List<ResourceUsage> list = new List<ResourceUsage>();
 
        using (ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query))
        {
 
            foreach (ManagementObject obj in searcher.Get())
            {
 
                list.Add(new ResourceUsage(
                    obj.Properties["UserName"].Value.ToString(),
                    obj.Properties["ComputerName"].Value.ToString(),
                    obj.Properties["ResourcesOpened"].Value.ToString()));
            }
        }
 
        return list;
    }
}
 
public class ResourceUsage
{
    private string _userName;
    private string _computerName;
    private string _resourceName;
 
    public ResourceUsage (string user, string computer, string resource)
	{
        _userName = user;
        _computerName = computer;
        _resourceName = resource;
	}
 
	public string UserName
	{
	  get { return _userName; }
	}
 
    public string ComputerName
	{
	  get { return _computerName; }
	}
 
    	public string ResourceName
	{
	  get { return _resourceName; }
	}
 
}

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