Working with Your Environment

The Environment class of the System namespace has properties and methods that enable you to interact with the environment that your application is running in. It also helps you retrieve specific information about the user who is currently logged on to the system that your applications are running on.

If you wrote applications using Visual Basic 6, you know that not many ways were built into the language to get information about the operating system, the version of either the OS or the version of Visual Basic, or even information about what the current user's name was. In .NET, the Environment class gives you more information than you need.

In this section, you learn how to retrieve information about the current state ...

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