C# Programming – Get the public IP address of the computer

1. Handling:

To solve the problem of getting the computer’s public IP address, I will do the following:

+ Go to http://checkip.dyndns.org/ and read the HTML content sent.

+ Process the string and extract the content and return the desired result (public IP address).

2. Build a simple program

I will build a simple program in the form of Console Application (.NET Framework), then perform the procedure to get the computer’s public IP address and display it on the Console window screen.

The C# code is as follows:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;

namespace GetPublicIP
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string publicIp = GetPublicIPAddress();

            Console.WriteLine($"Current IP Address: {publicIp}");

            Console.ReadKey();
        }

        static string GetPublicIPAddress()
        {
            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();
            }

            int first = address.IndexOf("Address: ") + 9;
            int last = address.LastIndexOf("</body>");
            address = address.Substring(first, last - first);

            return address;
        }
    }
}

3. Result:

For safety and privacy reasons, I masked the IP address on the pictures.

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5. Conclusion

This is a relatively short article, I have come up with a way to get the public IP address (public IP) when using the C# programming language. If you have any other solution, please share it with me!

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