My Namespace

One of the new features introduced with Visual Basic 2005 is the My namespace.
Provides quick access to some of the most common features which are sometimes hard to find otherwise in the .NET Framework.
All the features in the My object namespace are available in the .NET framework class library.
It means that you might have to learn 2 different ways of accessing the same thing.
My namespace is aimed at making the common development tasks very easy to perform.
Be aware that using these shortcuts might not give you all the power or functionality that you would get by accessing them directly from the class library
Extremely VB centric and not really used by many C# developers.
Also with the My namespace, the code you write will be much easier to understand and maintain when a new developer looks at it for the first time.

Using My Objects

The My objects gives you quick access to application, system and user information without having to search through the .NET Framework libraries

My.Application	application specific seetings
My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath	System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly
	System.Reflection.Assembly.Location
My.Application.Info.Version	System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location).FileVersion
My.Computer	computer component, for example clipboard
My.ComputerName
My.Computer.Clock.LocalTime
My.Computer.Clipboard	System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard
My.Computer.Clipboard.GetText
My.Computer.Registry.GetValue
My.Computer.Info.AvailablePhysicalMemory
My.Computer.Info.TotalPhysicalMemory
My.Computer.Info.OSFullName
My.Computer.Info.OSPlatform
My.Computer.Info.OSVersion
My.Resources	resources within your solution
My.Resources.Resources.MyResource
My.Settings
My.Settings.Mysetting	Properties.Settings.Default.Mysetting
My.Settings.Save
My.User	current user information
My.User.InitializeWithWindowsUser
My.Forms
My.WebServices	provides an instance of very web service currently references in your solution.