The most important thing I learned from a presentation of Andrew Coates on Windows development was
If you use a specific feature of a Windows OS, check for that specific feature and not for the Windows OS version!
E.g. You create an awesome application that uses the new Windows 7 taskbar features!
DON’T use code mentioned in this blog post: “Determine Windows Version and Edition with C#” or more complicated here: C# Detect Windows OS Version
Add this namespace
using Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Taskbar;
Verify this property on the class TaskbarManager
TaskbarManager.IsPlatformSupported
PS
In this blog post you can found how you use the progress bar of the Windows 7 taskbar
3 comments:
Being the author of the "more complicated" blog post, I must agree. If you need to determine if a feature is available, don't do it by detecting the OS. The same is true for javascript in web development. Don't browser-detect, feature-detect.
That being said. There are very legitimate reasons for wanting to know your client's OS. Gathering demographic info is probably the most common. For my particular situation, I wanted to know the OS to include that info in my automated error reporting.
Just because a tool isn't for the job at hand, that doesn't mean it's a worthless or "BAD" tool.
Andrew,
Thank you for your comment.
Agree, I use similar code to get the current running Windows version in my exception logs :-)
I just googled and found your explanation and used that as a refernce...
Thanks for posting your code on your blog, although I didn't test it :-)
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