What is the use of System.Environment class? Give some Examples

Posted By :Narayanan Posted Date :April 04, 2012 Points :40 Category :.NET Framework

used to retrieve information about the operating system

1) Environment.OSVersion - Gets the version of the operating system
2) Environment.GetLogicalDrives() - method that returns the drives
3) Environment.Version - returns the .NET version running the application
4) Environment.MachineName - Gets name of the current machine
5) Environment.Newline - Gets the newline symbol for the environment

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