Get Along With System.Environment Class

Introduction

In this article we will have a detailed article on System.Environment. Why is it so serious to have it? I don't know about you, but my personal experience says that, knowing your users is as important as knowing your user's environment.

Actually, this class will provide you accessibility to your user's environment.

Background

If you are familiar with your computer then, it is enough for you to deal with it.

Why do I Need It?

Suppose you have a solution file in which you want to save an x-file on user's environment. Then, you must know the partitioned structure of the user's computer. If you want to save a file in My Documents, then you must know the actual path of the My Documents folder.

To do this, you want something that lets you know about this.

For this, we have a class, Environment, in the System namespace of the .NET Library.

Architecture of Environment Class

All the methods and properties are static in nature. The following are the methods:

CurrentDirectory

Gets/sets the path of the current working directory (folder).

// Current Working Directory

Console.WriteLine("My Working Directory is : \t" + Environment.CurrentDirectory);
Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");
CommandLine

Gets/sets the path of the project's command line inside the Bin folder of the solution.

//CommandLine Property

Console.WriteLine("My Command Line is : \t" + Environment.CommandLine);

Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");
MachineName

Gets/sets the name of the Working Machine.

//Machine Name of Computer

Console.WriteLine("My Machine Name is : \t" + Environment.MachineName);

Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");
Processor Count

Gets/sets the number of processors inside your CPU.

//Proccessor Count

Console.WriteLine("Proccessor Count of My Computer is : \t"+Environment.ProcessorCount);

Console.WriteLine("--------------------------------------------------------------------");
Is64bitOrNot

Returns a Boolean value if the current environment is 64-bit compatible or not.

// Is 64bit Or Not
Console.WriteLine("Is My Computer is 64Bit Comaptible : \t" + Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem);

Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");
OsVersion

Returns the name of the Operating System.

//OS Version

Console.WriteLine("Version of The OS is : \t"+Environment.OSVersion);

Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");
UserName

Returns the active Username of the user.

//UserName

Console.WriteLine("My Current User Name is : \t" + Environment.UserName);

Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");
SystemDirectory

Returns the path of the System32 folder.

// System.Directory

Console.WriteLine("My system Directory is : \t" + Environment.SystemDirectory);

Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");
PageSize

Provides the page size assigned by your computer processor.

//System Page Size

Console.WriteLine("Page Size of The System is : \t"+Environment.SystemPageSize);

Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");
Version

Returns the .NET framework version.

// Version

Console.WriteLine("Version of .NET : \t"+Environment.Version);

Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------------------------");

The following are some more static methods:

GetLogicalDrives()

Returns an array of strings that has all the Logical drive's names.

//Get Logical drives

string[] myDrives = Environment.GetLogicalDrives();

foreach (string drive in myDrives)

{

Console.WriteLine(drive);
}
GetFolderPath()

Returns the path of the folder ed as an argument in its constructor.

//Get Folder Path

string myDocument = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);

Console.WriteLine(myDocument);

Here, we have tried to get the path of My Documents.

Output

I have an enclosed Solution file that has an output like: