How can I get the Workgroup name of a computer using C#?

Question

I've read about getting it with the Environment class, but can't find it.

Thanks guys.

Answer 1

A little Googling points here:

http://news.devx.com/showthread.php?t=145593

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Look here for an example. You will have to use P/Invoke.

Answer 3

I'm thinking this could have been what you read:

System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERDOMAIN")

But this has nothing to do with workgroup name. The workgroup name is not available in the environment (you could type "set" in a command prompt to verify that).

Answer 4

You can do this with WMI; add a reference to System.Management.dll and a using statement for System.Management namespace, then call the following code:

ManagementObjectSearcher mos = 
  new ManagementObjectSearcher(@"root\CIMV2", @"SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem");
foreach (ManagementObject mo in mos.Get()) {
  Console.WriteLine(mo["Workgroup"]);
}