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System Namespace
Environment Class
 WorkingSet Property

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Environment..::.WorkingSet Property

Gets the amount of physical memory mapped to the process context.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Shared ReadOnly Property WorkingSet As Long
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim value As Long

value = Environment.WorkingSet
C#
public static long WorkingSet { get; }
Visual C++
public:
static property long long WorkingSet {
    long long get ();
}
JScript
public static function get WorkingSet () : long

Property Value

Type: System..::.Int64
A 64-bit signed integer containing the number of bytes of physical memory mapped to the process context.

The following code example displays the size of the working set of the computer running the code example.

Visual Basic
' Sample for the Environment.WorkingSet property
Imports System

Class Sample
   Public Shared Sub Main()
      Console.WriteLine("WorkingSet: {0}", Environment.WorkingSet)
   End Sub 'Main
End Class 'Sample
'
'This example produces the following results:
'
'WorkingSet: 5038080
'

C#
// Sample for the Environment.WorkingSet property
using System;

class Sample 
{
    public static void Main() 
    {
    Console.WriteLine("WorkingSet: {0}", Environment.WorkingSet);
    }
}
/*
This example produces the following results:

WorkingSet: 5038080
*/

Visual C++
// Sample for the Environment::WorkingSet property
using namespace System;
int main()
{
   Console::WriteLine( "WorkingSet: {0}", Environment::WorkingSet );
}

/*
This example produces the following results:

WorkingSet: 5038080
*/

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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