Host Name or Computer Name

[Guest]

Hi,
Who can I get hostname of local machine?

I have found following, but I am not sure all Windows OS(XP/2000/NT/98..) will have the "COMPUTERNAME" environment variable.

System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMPUTERNAME");

Is there any better & more reliable way to get hostname/computer name of local machine, where my application are going to run?

Thanks,
Avin Patel

 

[Lajos Malozsak]

You should try the following:

System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ComputerName


Lajos Malozsák

Hi,
Who can I get hostname of local machine?

I have found following, but I am not sure all Windows OS(XP/2000/NT/98..)

will have the "COMPUTERNAME" environment variable.

System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMPUTERNAME");

Is there any better & more reliable way to get hostname/computer name of

local machine, where my application are going to run?

 

[Shakir Hussain]

Try this.

string myHostName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();

or

string myHostName = Environment.MachineName;

Shak.

Hi,
Who can I get hostname of local machine?

I have found following, but I am not sure all Windows OS(XP/2000/NT/98..)

will have the "COMPUTERNAME" environment variable.

System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMPUTERNAME");

Is there any better & more reliable way to get hostname/computer name of

local machine, where my application are going to run?