Question

I have a problem with defining the local machine when trying to pull a list of Scheduled Tasks.

“localhost” doesn’t seem to work, how could I define the current / local computer

private void testing_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // Get a ScheduledTasks object for the computer named "DALLAS"
    ScheduledTasks st = new ScheduledTasks(@"localhost");

    // Get an array of all the task names
    string[] taskNames = st.GetTaskNames();

    // Open each task, write a descriptive string to the console
    foreach (string name in taskNames)
    {
        Task t = st.OpenTask(name);
        MessageBox.Show("  " + t.ToString());
        t.Close();
    }

    // Dispose the ScheduledTasks object to release COM resources.
    st.Dispose();  
}

Answer 1

From the documentation computer name needs to be a UNC name:

ScheduledTasks Constructor (String)

Therefore, the following should work:

string machineName = (@"\\" + System.Environment.MachineName);

ScheduledTasks st = new ScheduledTasks(machineName);