My.Computer.Name Property

[toecutter]

Both of the below return the computers name in upper case even when the actual name is in lower case

 MsgBox("Computer name: " & My.Computer.Name)
        MsgBox(Environment.MachineName)

I have had a look in the help and on MSDN and could not find any explanation to confirm this.

Is this true for every windows version?

regards
toe

ps: i only use MsgBox when testing

[Pradeep1210]

A machine name is unique on the network and case-insensitive. So it should not matter what case it returns. You can always convert it to the one you want using any of the string functions.
e.g.

        MsgBox(My.Computer.Name.ToLower)
        MsgBox(My.Computer.Name.ToUpper)

[toecutter]

thanks fro the explanation.

The problem i came across was i was using the pc name as a registration key. [I know it isn't the most efficient way of doing it but that's all i am capable of at the moment]

On my 3 machines the pc names are in lower case so the program failed to start because the .net language was converting the pc name to upper case.

i just have to remember to change it to upper case

regards
toe

[jmcilhinney]

Why not just do a case-insensitive comparison? That way it doesn't matter what case is used where. The String.Equals method, among others, supports case-insensitive comparisons.