Getting User's IP Address. 1

[Ed2020]

Hi,

I'm looking for some code to return the user's IP address.

I've searched high and low but can't find any way of doing it.

Anybody got any ideas?

Ed Metcalfe.
ed_metcalfe@hotmail.com

 

[JGillespie]

Place a Winsock control on your form (it will be hidden at runtime so it does not matter where you put it)and set it's name to Winsock1.

With this on your form you can now get the IP address by using the following code:

MyIPAddress = Winsock1.LocalIp


Do what you will then with the variable MyIPAddress.

HTH

Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk

 

[Ed2020]

Thanks Jamie. Have a purple star!

Does anybody know a way of doing it without having a specific form open with a WinSock control on it?

Ed Metcalfe
ed_metcalfe@hotmail.com

 

[JGillespie]

Try this link:

http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/index.html?code/network/ipaddress.htm

Does what you want with API calls. As you can see though it is FAR more involved than my previous suggestion.

HTH Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk