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Yesterday I wrote about converting an IP Address to an Integer in C#. But both methods I presented return the IP Address in network byte order.

However in some cases, especially when calling WinApi functions, you will need to convert the Integer to host byte order which is little-endian on Intel processors.

In an unmanaged language we could do very fast byte swap with inline assembly, eg:

From WinApi we could use the ntohl function and in managed languages we can use the NetworkToHostOrder method from the System.Net.IPAddress class.

For an IPv4 address we need to make sure we are using the proper overload by casting the result of System.BitConverter to an int:

 

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  • For a call to a WinApi function I needed to convert an IP Address to an Integer in C#.

    This can be done using the System.Net.IPAddress class:

    Although this works, the compiler issues a warning: 

    warning CS0618: ‘System.Net.IPAddress.Address’ is obsolete: ‘This property has been deprecated. It is address family dependent. Please use IPAddress.Equals method to perform comparisons. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=14202′

    This warning is issued because the Address property is not IPv6 compatible. The warning can be suppressed like this:

    But it would be better to use the non deprecated GetAddressBytes() Method:

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  • Today I was asked to troubleshoot an executable that didn’t work correctly on Windows XP Embedded.

    On startup it displayed the following message:

    I verified that System.Configuration.dll was present (in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727).

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