C# - Operating System Information

The .NET Framework class library exposes features of the runtime and provides other high level services. The OperatingSystem Class provides a method to copy an instance of OperatingSystem, and a method to return a string representation of operating system information.

  1. System.Object
  2. System.OperatingSystem

The OperatingSystem class is not a general purpose class and you cannot derive a more inclusive type from the OperatingSystem class. If you need a type to contain other information about an operating system, create your own type, then include a field of type OperatingSystem and any additional fields, properties, or methods you require.

OperatingSystem _os = null; _os = Environment.OSVersion;

The Environment Class has a property called OSVersion which returns an object of type OperatingSystem. The following C# program retrieves the current operating system information like version and platform identifier with the help of OperatingSystem Class and Environment Class.

Full Source C#
using System; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace WindowsFormsApplication1 { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { OperatingSystem _os = null; _os = Environment.OSVersion; MessageBox.Show (_os.VersionString.ToString()); } } }







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