How can I determine if I am running locally on my PC or on the cloud?

Question

Using MVC3 and I\'d like to determine if I am running locally or deployed to the cloud?

Answer 1

You can do it the old-fashioned way, by looking for the existence of an Environment Variable.

Set the value of your environment variable in computer properties and read it using Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("MyVariable").

On Azure, the variable won't be present, so the call will return null.