How To Get Public IP Address Using C#

Friends,

In this post, we will see how can we get public IP Address of a computer using C#. We will make use of WebRequest class to make a call to the server that returns the IP address of the machine that made the request. Here’s the code snippet that does this –

 static string GetIPAddress()
 {
     String address = "";
     WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://checkip.dyndns.org/");
     using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
      using (StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
      {
         address = stream.ReadToEnd();
      }

      //Search for the ip in the html
      int first = address.IndexOf("Address: ") + 9;
      int last = address.LastIndexOf("");
      address = address.Substring(first, last - first);

      return address;
 }

In the above code snippet, we are making a request to the website http://checkip.dyndns.org that displays the IP address of the current computer. We are receiving the response and parsing the response to get the IP address.

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