How do i check for mono on runtime

Question

By default mono doesnt trust any SSL connections. So if running on mono i'd like to give a message rather then throwing an exception.

How do i check if i am running under mono at runtime? (since at compile time the CLI wont know)

Answer 1

I'll quote from the Mono site:

Having code that depends on the underlying runtime is considered to be bad coding style, but sometimes such code is necessary to work around runtime bugs

using System; 
class Program {
    static void Main ()
    {
        Type t = Type.GetType ("Mono.Runtime");
        if (t != null)
             Console.WriteLine ("You are running with the Mono VM");
        else
             Console.WriteLine ("You are running something else");
    }
}

Answer 2

Couldn't you just catch the System.Net.WebException and pass your message up? This is approach #1 from the Mono site here: Using Trusted Roots Respectfully. There are a number of more (and a couple less) involved responses there if you'd like to do more, but catching the exception avoids the coding-to-runtime problem tobsen refers to.