Retrieving OS name

Question

Is there any way to get the OS name the user is currently using?

Answer 1

You can use

System.Environment

class

Environment.OSVersion.ToString()

See Environment.OSVersion Property

Gets an OperatingSystem object that contains the current platform identifier and version number.

Answer 2

You can use the Environment.OSVersion property.

Version version = Environment.OSVersion;

To decode the version, refer to the wikipedia page of Microsoft Windows Timeline. For example, if the version is 6.1.7600, then it is either a Windows 7 or a Windows Server 2008 R2.

Note that there is no direct API to get the OS name, because a same version can refer to multiple public OS names.

Answer 3

You cannot retrieve the OS name directly. Instead use the Environment.OSVersion.ToString() property to interpret the version & display the OS Name.

This article has a sample that will help you. It covers Win95 to Win7.

All you need to do is write a function that will return the OS name as shown in the above article.