Environment Class
Provides information about, and means to manipulate, the current environment and platform. This class cannot be inherited.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The following example demonstrates displays a list of information about the current environment.
' Sample for Environment class summary Imports System Imports System.Collections Class Sample Public Shared Sub Main() Dim str As [String] Dim nl As [String] = Environment.NewLine ' Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("-- Environment members --") ' Invoke this sample with an arbitrary set of command line arguments. Console.WriteLine("CommandLine: {0}", Environment.CommandLine) Dim arguments As [String]() = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs() Console.WriteLine("GetCommandLineArgs: {0}", [String].Join(", ", arguments)) ' <-- Keep this information secure! --> Console.WriteLine("CurrentDirectory: {0}", Environment.CurrentDirectory) Console.WriteLine("ExitCode: {0}", Environment.ExitCode) Console.WriteLine("HasShutdownStarted: {0}", Environment.HasShutdownStarted) ' <-- Keep this information secure! --> Console.WriteLine("MachineName: {0}", Environment.MachineName) Console.WriteLine("NewLine: {0} first line{0} second line{0}" & _ " third line", Environment.NewLine) Console.WriteLine("OSVersion: {0}", Environment.OSVersion.ToString()) Console.WriteLine("StackTrace: '{0}'", Environment.StackTrace) ' <-- Keep this information secure! --> Console.WriteLine("SystemDirectory: {0}", Environment.SystemDirectory) Console.WriteLine("TickCount: {0}", Environment.TickCount) ' <-- Keep this information secure! --> Console.WriteLine("UserDomainName: {0}", Environment.UserDomainName) Console.WriteLine("UserInteractive: {0}", Environment.UserInteractive) ' <-- Keep this information secure! --> Console.WriteLine("UserName: {0}", Environment.UserName) Console.WriteLine("Version: {0}", Environment.Version.ToString()) Console.WriteLine("WorkingSet: {0}", Environment.WorkingSet) ' No example for Exit(exitCode) because doing so would terminate this example. ' <-- Keep this information secure! --> Dim query As [String] = "My system drive is %SystemDrive% and my" & _ " system root is %SystemRoot%" str = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(query) Console.WriteLine("ExpandEnvironmentVariables: {0} {1}", nl, str) Console.WriteLine("GetEnvironmentVariable: {0} My temporary directory is {1}.", _ nl, Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP")) Console.WriteLine("GetEnvironmentVariables: ") Dim environmentVariables As IDictionary = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables() Dim de As DictionaryEntry For Each de In environmentVariables Console.WriteLine(" {0} = {1}", de.Key, de.Value) Next de Console.WriteLine("GetFolderPath: {0}", _ Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System)) Dim drives As [String]() = Environment.GetLogicalDrives() Console.WriteLine("GetLogicalDrives: {0}", [String].Join(", ", drives)) End Sub 'Main End Class 'Sample ' 'This example produces results similar to the following: '(Any result that is lengthy or reveals information that should remain 'secure has been omitted and marked "!---OMITTED---!".) ' 'C:\>env0 ARBITRARY TEXT ' '-- Environment members -- 'CommandLine: env0 ARBITRARY TEXT 'GetCommandLineArgs: env0, ARBITRARY, TEXT 'CurrentDirectory: C:\Documents and Settings\!---OMITTED---! 'ExitCode: 0 'HasShutdownStarted: False 'MachineName: !---OMITTED---! 'NewLine: ' first line ' second line ' third line 'OSVersion: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0 'StackTrace: ' at System.Environment.GetStackTrace(Exception e) ' at System.Environment.GetStackTrace(Exception e) ' at System.Environment.get_StackTrace() ' at Sample.Main()' 'SystemDirectory: C:\WINNT\System32 'TickCount: 17995355 'UserDomainName: !---OMITTED---! 'UserInteractive: True 'UserName: !---OMITTED---! 'Version: !---OMITTED---! 'WorkingSet: 5038080 'ExpandEnvironmentVariables: ' My system drive is C: and my system root is C:\WINNT 'GetEnvironmentVariable: ' My temporary directory is C:\DOCUME~1\!---OMITTED---!\LOCALS~1\Temp. 'GetEnvironmentVariables: ' !---OMITTED---! 'GetFolderPath: C:\WINNT\System32 'GetLogicalDrives: A:\, C:\, D:\ '
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