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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
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Getting Computer Information

My.Computer provides the ability of retrieving information on the current machine. The first information is the machine name, which is available from My.Computer.Name, a property of type String. Second is the My.Computer.Info property of type Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.ComputerInfo, which collects information such as the total and available memory, both physical and virtual or the name, platform, and version of the operating system. The following code shows how you can get some information on the system:

Console.WriteLine("Computer name {0}: ", My.Computer.Name)Console.WriteLine("Total physical memory {0}: ",                  My.Computer.Info.TotalPhysicalMemory)Console.WriteLine("Available ...

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