Environment Class

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Gives applications access to information about the environment in which they are running. In the current release, the only supported property of this class is DeviceType, which is used to determine if an application is running on an actual Windows Phone device or on the device emulator on a PC.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System::Object
Microsoft.Devices::Environment

Namespace: Microsoft.Devices
Assembly: Microsoft.Phone (in Microsoft.Phone.dll)

Syntax

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The Environment type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	DeviceType	Gets the type of device on which the application is running. Use this property to determine if your application is running on an actual device or on the device emulator.