Question

Writing my first C# application…never touched the language before and not much of a programmer! I have been googling around and got a few books but thought the best way to learn is to actually try some coding!

Anyway, been asked to write a little inventory system for all our 15000 servers and I can do this in powershell fine but wanted a challenge and try my hand at C#.

I have the below code and this works fine in a command propmpt window but how to I put this into a winform app? I assume I need to change the “Console.WriteLine” to something else…just I do not know what the something else is! I will probably add in a listbox to show the details in there rather than executing a command prompt..

I will be ading in loads of stuff – like memory info and disk sizes etc so getting this right would help me…plus, no doubt I will ask loads of questions!

Code that works:

using System;

namespace OsVersionSample

{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Operating System Detaiils");
            OperatingSystem os = Environment.OSVersion;
            Console.WriteLine("OS Version: " + os.Version.ToString());
            Console.WriteLine("OS Platoform: " + os.Platform.ToString());
            Console.WriteLine("OS SP: " + os.ServicePack.ToString());
            Console.WriteLine("OS Version String: " + os.VersionString.ToString());
            Console.WriteLine();

            // Get Version details

            Version ver = os.Version;
            Console.WriteLine("Major version: " + ver.Major);
            Console.WriteLine("Major Revision: " + ver.MajorRevision);
            Console.WriteLine("Minor version: " + ver.Minor);
            Console.WriteLine("Minor Revision: " + ver.MinorRevision);
            Console.WriteLine("Build: " + ver.Build);

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Code I want to put into a winform:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication2
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Operating System Detaiils");

            OperatingSystem os = Environment.OSVersion;

            Console.WriteLine("OS Version: " + os.Version.ToString());

            Console.WriteLine("OS Platoform: " + os.Platform.ToString());

            Console.WriteLine("OS SP: " + os.ServicePack.ToString());

            Console.WriteLine("OS Version String: " + os.VersionString.ToString());

            Console.WriteLine();



            // Get Version details

            Version ver = os.Version;

            Console.WriteLine("Major version: " + ver.Major);

            Console.WriteLine("Major Revision: " + ver.MajorRevision);

            Console.WriteLine("Minor version: " + ver.Minor);

            Console.WriteLine("Minor Revision: " + ver.MinorRevision);

            Console.WriteLine("Build: " + ver.Build);



            Console.ReadLine(); 
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Tou can add listbox to form and do something like this

 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
            {
    listbox1.items.add("Operating System Detaiils");
     OperatingSystem os = Environment.OSVersion;
listbox1.items.add("OS Version: " + os.Version.ToString());
    // and so on...

    }