Thanks for the input. When I looked at System.Net.NetworkInformation just
now it seems to have all we need. As I was learning and coding it seems to
me that some of the data for ipv6 was not really there. I will revisit it.
I agree it is a better solution if it has what we need.

Roger

Roger


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:08 AM, David Quigley <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 04/12/2013 20:24, Roger Massey wrote:
> > Here is a link [2] to a zip file with a windows netconfigexe. (The .
> > is missing to make the mailer happy).  If you have a windows machine
> > run netconfig.exe on it. It should output a json string that
> > describes
> > the machines network config.
> >
> > You could verify the json is legal on web validators (jsonlint, ...)
> > or post the string to the list.
> >
> > If you have visual studio c# 2010 the source code is also in the zip
> > and comments to the list are welcome.
> >
> > It is my first c# program so be gentle.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > PS. I never could get the exe and/or zip through the mailer.
> >
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17774745/netconfig.zip
> >
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> The program is very well written. The only question I have is whether
> all the use of com interop and struct packing is necessary? Are there
> really no .NET interfaces in either management or other namespaces which
> provides this information? It seems like the
> System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace may be some help here. If the
> program works as it needs to I'm all up for keeping it the way it is but
> from experience I know the second you start using pInvoke or COM interop
> in a c# application it makes maintenance of the program harder and
> spinning up other people to work on it harder as well.
>
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