Arsen,

I think there is no (easy) way to determine the kind of app using a library.
I think the best you can do is to define a constructor for your main class
where the user of the library can explicitly indicate the kind of app he is
developing. Something like:

 namespace MyLibrary
 {
   public enum ClientType
     { ClientTypeNotSpecified, ClientTypeConsoleApp, ClientTypeWinForms,
ClientTypeWebForms, ClientTypeWebService }

   public class MainClass
   {
     private ClientType clientType;
     public MainClass(ClientType clientType)
     {
       this.clientType = clientType;
     }
     // rest of the methods use clientType to determine the type of app..
   }
 }

Regards - Octavio

I'm just about to run out the door now so I can't check to see if this is
100% correct but if memory serves me correctly you can use

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentContext

to get the current context. Not sure what you can do after that... sorry for
not being more help but I was just about to leave...

Brian Delahunty
Ireland

http://briandela.com/blog

Arsen,

   With all due respect to the previous posters, they are wrong in their
answers.  You can check the static Current property of the HttpContext
class.  If it returns null, then you are not running in an ASP.NET
environment.

   However, I will say this, you should at the least abstract out the
interface to access the cache/hashtable.  I *think* that you can use the
ASP.NET cache in non ASP.NET situations (I don't know what makes me think
that, so don't kill me if it is not true), and if not, you could easily
generate your own cache with similar semantics.

   Hope this helps.