Utah .NET User Group

I've looked for the past hour but can't find any easy way to get an IP address of the machine for a WinForms app. Is there anything simple like getting the login name like WindowsIndenty.GetCurrent()? Wayne

I've got some code for you to get the IP address. Hold on while I look it up...

Ok, so you should be able to get it by the host name. Do DNS.GetHostName() and then feed that into DNS.GetHostByName(string hostname) and you will get back an IPHostEntry object. Use the AddressList property of the IPHostEntry object and you will get a collection of IPAddress objects.

There is another method I used when I was trying to get the IP address of a virtual machine (unfortunately, every VM had the same host name). We had to get the IPAddress directly from the NIC cards. This method is quite a bit more sloppy though. Make this call: NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()[0].GetIPProperties().UnicastAddresses[0].Address

Hope this helps.