How do I know if I work in a web environment?

Question

I am wondering if anyone has a method to determine if a thread is running in a web environment.

HttpContext.Current 

not reliable because I do these checks in the background thread where there is no HttpContext. It seems

 HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppId 

pretty reliable (if it is zero, then I'm not in a web application), but I'm wondering if anyone else has any proven method.

By the way, I will use this for a variety of things. For example, this code:

 if (HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppId != null) { config = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~"); } else { config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None); } 

thanks
Joni

Answer 1

Try HostingEnvironment.IsHosted , I think it will work as expected