Comments on: Determine Windows Version and Edition with C#

By: John Guy

John Guy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:46:10 +0000

Ok I have found it!!
To discriminate if you have a Tablet PC running XP

Inside #region EDITION I added

[DLLImport("user32")]
public static extern int GetSystemMetrics(int nIndex);

and

in #region 5 made this change

if ((suitMask & VER_SUITE_PERSONAL) != 0)
{
edition = "Home";
}
else
{
if (GetSystemMetrics(86) == 0) // 86 == SM_TABLETPC
edition = "Professional";
else
edition = "Tablet Edition";
}

I was able to test only on an XP Tablet and an XP Professional laptops.
Thanks for a terrific article and Jonney Tiney fb.

By: John

John — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:34:14 +0000

Have you a way of discriminating between XP Professional and XP Tablet?

By: Jonny Tiney

Jonny Tiney — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:48:07 +0000

Hi, thanks for this – Works a treat for Operating System's up to Vista. For it to detect Windows 7, I amended the Windows Vista Detection to look like this:

case 6:
switch (minorVersion)
{
case 0:
name = "Windows Vista";
break;

case 1:
name = "Windows 7″;
break;

case 3:
name = "Windows Server 2008″;
break;
}
break;

Seems to work a treat, but haven't tested on Windows Vista. I now want to know how I would go about fixing the Product part, so it will show 'Professional' etc. (I think Home Premium, Basic and Ultimate should still be working).

Any help is appreciated

By: Sudheer kumar singh

Sudheer kumar singh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:27:43 +0000

wonderful!thanks this code is very helpful.

By: Steve Eschweiler

Steve Eschweiler — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:38:04 +0000

Awesome! Plugged it right in and it worked. Thanks for providing it.