How do I get the local machine name in C#?

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Yoann. B picture Yoann. B · Mar 19, 2009 · Viewed 71.3k times · Source

How do I get the local machine name?

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annakata picture annakata · Mar 19, 2009

System.Environment.MachineName

It works unless a machine name has more than 15 characters.

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