My.Computer

My.Computer provides lots of shortcuts for accessing features on the local system, starting from the clipboard arriving at the Registry, passing through audio capabilities. This is basically a class exposing several properties, each one related to a computer area. This is a list of My.Computer properties:

• FileSystem: Provides members for accessing files, directories, and other objects on disk

• Clipboard: Provides members for setting data to and getting data from the system clipboard

• Audio: Allows playing audio files

• Mouse: Allows retrieving information on the installed mouse

• Keyboard: Provides members for getting information on the state of keys in the keyboard

• Registry: Provides members for getting and setting information to Windows Registry

• Network: Offers members for performing operations within the network that the computer is connected to

• Ports: Allows retrieving information on the computer’s serial ports

• Screen: Allows retrieving information on the screen properties (Windows Forms only)

• Info: Provides a series of information about the running machine

As usual, IntelliSense provides detailed information on each member from the preceding properties. In the next section you learn to access your machine information with My.Computer, but providing examples for each member is not possible. Because of this, members for the biggest areas are summarized and code examples for the most important members are provided.