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C# in a Nutshell
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C# in a Nutshell

by Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, Peter Drayton
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
31h 8m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

PlatformID

Synopsis

This enumerated value indicates the type of operating platform that .NET is currently running on and is returned by the OperatingSystem.Platform property. Win32Windows indicates a Windows 9x-based operating system, while Win32NT indicates an operating system based on Windows NT, including Windows 2000, XP, and .NET Server. Win32S is a layer that can run on 16-bit versions of Windows (Windows 3.x) to provide access to some 32-bit applications.

public enum PlatformID {
            Win32S = 0,
            Win32Windows = 1,
            Win32NT = 2
}

Hierarchy

ObjectValueTypeEnum(IComparable, IFormattable, IConvertible)PlatformID

Returned By

OperatingSystem.Platform

Passed To

OperatingSystem.OperatingSystem()

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