How do I get device information from specific port names?

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I am now working on a project which related to bluetooth communication.
I retrieved all COM ports names "COM12" , "COM23" from devices "Dual-SPP" and "SOLONOID" , now my problem is I could get information related to device like "DeviceID", "Friendly name" , but i need to get the above actual names of device like
"Dual-SPP" and "SOLONOID".

How do i get this names? please suggest.
Thanks .

What I have tried:

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher =
                   new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2",
                   "SELECT * FROM Win32_PnPEntity");

               foreach (ManagementObject ManObj in searcher.Get())
               {
                   if (ManObj["Caption"].ToString().Contains("(COM"))
                   {
                       Console.WriteLine(ManObj["DeviceID"].ToString());
                       Console.WriteLine(ManObj["PNPDeviceID"].ToString());
                       Console.WriteLine(ManObj["Name"].ToString());
                       Console.WriteLine(ManObj["Caption"].ToString());
                       Console.WriteLine(ManObj["Description"].ToString());
                       Console.WriteLine(ManObj["ProviderType"].ToString());
                       Console.WriteLine(ManObj["Status"].ToString());
                   }
               }

Posted 19-Sep-16 21:36pm

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Updated 19-Sep-16 22:17pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2016-09-19T22:17:00

What makes you think they have an "actual name" like "solonoid" which is machine readable?
The "friendly name" is the name it reports to Windows as a "human friendly" description of the device, and is probably about the best you can hope for.
There is Win32_SerialPort class (Windows)[^] which includes a "description" property, but the chances are that is the same as friendly name anyway (in fact it's probably teh source of the "friendly name" that ManagementObject returns).