The Easiest Way to Get Local Ip Address (IPv4) in VB.Net

Submitted by janobe on Saturday, March 9, 2019 - 09:27.
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to get the local ip address using visual basic 2015. This method has the ability to get your local ip address with ease. This simple program also illustrates how to retrieve Ipv4 and display it into the listbox.

Creating Application

Step 1

Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and create a new windows form application for visual basic. ps1

Step 2

Do the form just like shown below ps2

Step 3

Open the code editor and set the Imports System.Net to access the .net libraries. You can put this above the public class.

Step 4

Create a sub procedure for getting the local ip address.
  1.     Private Sub retrieve_ip()
  2.  
  3.         Dim host_name As String = Dns.GetHostName()
  4.  
  5.         Dim ip_address As String = Dns.GetHostByName(host_name).AddressList(0).ToString()
  6.  
  7.         ListBox1.Items.Add("Host: " & host_name & "; IP Address: " & ip_address)
  8.  
  9.     End Sub
Step 5 Do the following code for showing the ip address in the list box when the button is clicked.
  1.     Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
  2.         retrieve_ip()
  3.     End Sub
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Comments

Submitted by Carollll (not verified) on Thu, 11/03/2022 - 00:30

Are you running that code on an extremely old version of VB.NET? For me... it always returns the internal IP address of our ASP.NET SERVER (not the user). I already know the "server's address"... I need the "user's" instead.