How do I get the computer name in .NET

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How do I get the computer name in .NET c#

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c#.net
Duplicate Question link – Malachi
@Malachi, that question is about Windows services. – Sam
@Sam a windows service is just a windows application that runs in the background, so really it's the same thing. – Malachi
@Malachi, yeah, I know what you mean. However, the I think the references to the ASP.NET-specific and Winforms-specific ways of doing this in the answers to this question mightn't apply in that question. – Sam
@Malachi, I think you've misunderstood what I meant about ASP.NET. I wasn't referring to an ASP.NET application getting its clients' computer names, although doing so (for the DNS name) is probably easy since the application would get the clients' IP addresses. I was referring to ASP.NET applications getting their host computers' names. See the highest-rated answer here for an example. – Sam

12 Answers

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System.Environment.MachineName

Or, if you are using Winforms, you can use System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ComputerName, which returns exactly the same value as System.Environment.MachineName.

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System.Environment.MachineName
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Some methods are given below to get machine name or computer name

Method 1:-

string MachineName1 = Environment.MachineName;

Method 2:-

string MachineName2 = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();

Method 3:-

string MachineName3 = Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_HOST"].ToString();

Method 4:-

string MachineName4 = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMPUTERNAME");

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string name = System.Environment.MachineName;
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Well there is one more way: Windows Management Instrumentation

using System.Management;

try
        {
            ManagementObjectSearcher searcher =
                new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2",
                "SELECT Name FROM Win32_ComputerSystem");

            foreach (ManagementObject queryObj in searcher.Get())
            {
                Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
                Console.WriteLine("Win32_ComputerSystem instance");
                Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
                Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", queryObj["Name"]);
            }
        }
        catch (ManagementException e)
        {
            // exception handling
        }

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You can have access of the machine name using Environment.MachineName.

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Try this:

string[] computer_name = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["remote_addr"]).HostName.Split(new Char[] { '.' });
return computer_name[0].ToString();
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I set the .InnerHtml of a <p> bracket for my web project to the user's computer name doing the following:

HTML:

    <div class="col-md-4">
       <h2>Your Computer Name Is</h2>
       <p id="pcname" runat="server"></p>
       <p>
           <a class="btn btn-default" href="#">Learn more &raquo;</a>
       </p>
    </div>

C#:

using System;
using System.Web.UI;

namespace GetPCName {
   public partial class _Default : Page {
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {            
        pcname.InnerHtml = Environment.MachineName;
    }
   }
}
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2 more helpful methods: System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ComputerName" )

System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ClientName" ) to get the name of the user's PC if they're connected via Citrix XenApp or Terminal Services (aka RDS, RDP, Remote Desktop)

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Try this one.

public static string GetFQDN()
{
    string domainName = NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties().DomainName;
    string hostName = Dns.GetHostName();
    string fqdn;
    if (!hostName.Contains(domainName))
        fqdn = hostName + "." +domainName;
    else
        fqdn = hostName;

    return fqdn;
}
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Make it simple by using this one line

Environment.MachineName;