June 15, 2002

There is no method call that directly retuns information about the number and type of installed CPU(s). However, this information is stored in a few environment variables, so it’s just

You don’t need to call any Windows API function in VB.NET to determine which version of Windows your application is running on, because this information is exposed by the Environment.OSVersion

You can easily retrieve information about the current user by means of a few properties of the Environment class. The Environment.UserName returns the name of the user; the Environment.UserInteractive property

In VB.NET you don’t need to call the GetWindowsDirectory and GetSystemDirectory API functions to retrieve the path the Windows and System directories. Retrieving the System directory is as simple as

The GetFolderPath method of the Environment class lets you retrieve the path of several important system directories. For example, here’s how you determine the path of the Desktop directory for