A reminder to those lost:

The SystemInformation class, containing many useful tidbits of information like the running computer name, number of monitors and whether we're on a network, resides in System.Windows.Forms of all places.

Sure, most of the information there is GDI and Forms related, but why do I need to include and reference this in a console application if all I want is the name of the computer? A more generic SystemInformation should be sitting directly under the System namespace.

VB 2005 has the My namespace for easy access to such information - but this is basic enough to be CLR-wide.

2 Comments

• Jim Arnold said Saturday, July 3, 2004 1:31:00 PM

  System.Environment?

• Avner Kashtan said Saturday, July 3, 2004 1:34:00 PM

  True. Forgot to check there. :)
  
  But still, there isn't a complete overlap in the properties exposed by both, and even when they do overlap they don't neccesarily use the same syntax - System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ComputerName is equivalent to System.Environment.MachineName.