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Windows Forms FAQ resources

1. Windows Forms Deployment

1.6 How do I determine which operating system is running?


The Environment class in the System namespace has this information.

[C#]
     string versionText = Environment.OSVersion.Version.ToString();

[VB.NET]
     Dim versionText As String = Environment.OSVersion.Version.ToString()


The Version property has member properties such as Major and Minor that give additional information.

Note that XP is windows version 5.1