.net - Determine whether running in ASP.NET or WinForms/console without System.Web

Question

From a class library, I need to determine at run-time whether I'm running in an ASP.NET app or a WinForms/console app. There have been several other questions asked on the subject, but all of those solutions require adding a reference to System.Web. If at all possible, when running my console and WinForms apps, I don't want to load the System.Web assembly into memory just for one line of code out of thousands.

Answer 1

Use System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName

If you're running ASP.NET then the assembly will be named thusly:

• If you are running IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0, the name is w3wp.exe.

• If you are running an earlier version of IIS, the name is aspnet_wp.exe.

Another Idea: How about testing the process/app domain for the presence of the System.Web.dll with the AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() API?