System and Environment Information Sample
This sample demonstrates the use of several classes that provide environment information.
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Demonstrates
The main form contains one TabControl with several tab pages. Each tab page calls a different group of Environment or SystemInformation members:
Properties This tab demonstrates Environment properties.
Special folders The code calls the GetNames method on the Environment.SpecialFolder to retrieve a list of all the special folder names. This list is used as a data source for the ListBox control.
Methods This tab shows results from calling Environment methods, including Exit and ExpandEnvironmentVariables . The string arrays returned by the GetLogicalDrives and GetCommandLineArgs methods are used as data sources to ListBox controls.
Environment variables The code calls the GetEnvironmentVariables method. The Keys property of the returned collection is used as the data source for a ListBox control. This tab page also demonstrates retrieving one environment variable by calling the GetEnvironmentVariable method.
System information This tab retrieves all the information provided by the SystemInformation.