Member Avatar for smelf1

Hi when i use the following code i get a warning
'Public Shared Function GetHostByName(hostName As String) As System.Net.IPHostEntry' is obsolete: 'GetHostByName is obsoleted for this type, please use GetHostEntry instead.

Dim host As System.Net.IPHostEntry = System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName(System.Net.Dns.GetHostName) 'gets the machines current IP

now the code works and shows me the ip

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Member Avatar for Ramy Mahrous

obsolete attribute means this method is old, and another one is used (GetHostEntry in your case)!
We use this attribute to tell developers who use our libraries that this method no longer use and use an alternative (the new one) + telling the compiler to raise warning or error if it used!
Understood?

Member Avatar for smelf1

ah yeah but its telling me to use gethostentry but if i use that it displays the ipv6 address and not the normal ipv4 one i need

Member Avatar for Ramy Mahrous

You didn't said I want just IPv4
To get it

dim host as IPHostEntry 
            dim hostname  as string 
hostname = "lmlmlaa";
            host = Dns.GetHostEntry(hostname)
For Each ip As IPAddress In host.AddressList
                if ip.AddressFamily == System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork 
                    MessageBox.Show(ip.ToString())
        Next

I don't know VB.NET, I tried to convert it to VB.NET as much as I can.

Member Avatar for smelf1

right i tried this

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim myip As String = System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddresses(My.Computer.Name)(1).ToString().Trim
        ComboBox1.Items.Add(myip)
    End Sub

but it returen fe80::5efe:192.168.0.19%10 i just wanted 192.168.0.19 how do i get it to show that and not this fe80::5efe:192.168.0.19%10

Member Avatar for Ramy Mahrous

Please concentrate in my answer and try this code, don't get me another pieces of code which I didn't write and say it doesn't work!!!!!!!!!

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
dim host as IPHostEntry 
dim hostname  as string 
hostname =  My.Computer.Name
host = Dns.GetHostEntry(hostname)
For Each ip As IPAddress In host.AddressList
if ip.AddressFamily = System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork 
ComboBox1.Items.Add(ip)
end if
Next
Member Avatar for smelf1

it returns 3 items,

ipv6 fe80::3894:6b0e:ed6c:7a1c%8
fe80::5efe:192.168.0.19%10
and what i need
192.168.0.19

how do i get it to only retung the last bit?

Member Avatar for Ramy Mahrous

It doesn't return 3 items, seem you don't care! I tried my code before posting it works fine. I won't go on in this thread.
Excuse me!

Member Avatar for Comatose

split it by : ;)

Member Avatar for smelf1

excuse me but when i run your code it returns exactly what i posted above, and this is on a vista machine

Member Avatar for Comatose

Hmmn. I only get one entry... but I don't have IPV6 enabled either.

Member Avatar for smelf1

hum mayby i need an if statement saying not InterNetworkv6 instead of internetwork, as ipv6 was on by default on my vista.

Member Avatar for rapture

no problem, let us know if it works

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