Friday, February 29, 2008

How to check if class has been used in Web or Windows application

After a while, I decided to participate in a newsgroups tonight and found an interesting question. "Is there a programmatic way for the class lib to determine what kind of app is running - web or windows". The worst, guy requested official response from Microsoft support and didn't get an answer. After 3 days his question wasn't answered, he re-posted it. So, is there are something wrong? Looks like not.
The simple answer from my side was, to implement following function somewhere in his shared assembly:
public bool IsWebApp(){
return (HttpContext.Current != null);
}

So, if there is Current HttpContext than function has been called from ASP.NET application and if there is not such an object, function is called from Windows Forms application.
Simple enough.

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