Class to help your code know if you are running on windows or mac/mono

PlatformHelper.cs

public static class PlatformHelper
{
	static readonly Lazy<bool> IsRunningOnMonoValue = new Lazy<bool>(() =>
	{
		return Type.GetType("Mono.Runtime") != null;
	});

	public static bool IsRunningOnMono()
	{
		return IsRunningOnMonoValue.Value;
	}

	public static void SetLogFactoryBasedOnPlatform()
	{
		var isMono = PlatformHelper.IsRunningOnMono();
		if (isMono)
			LogManager.LogFactory = new ConsoleLogFactory();
		else
			LogManager.LogFactory = new NLogFactory();
	}
}