Re: How to get Location informations from IP address.

From:
"Cihan" <cihan_karagul@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp,microsoft.public.dotnet.general,microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet,microsoft.public.dotnet.framework
Date:
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:24:26 +0200
Message-ID:
<u#mq5X3DKHA.4316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Thank you very much for your helps guys.

I have used this code and it is working fine. for your informations.

    public class LocationInfo
    {
        public float Latitude { get; set; }
        public float Longitude { get; set; }
        public string CountryName { get; set; }
        public string CountryCode { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }
 public LocationInfo GetLocationInfo(string ipParam)
        {
            LocationInfo result = null;
            IPAddress i = System.Net.IPAddress.Parse(ipParam);
            string ip = i.ToString();
                 string r;
                using (var w = new WebClient())
                {
                    r =
w.DownloadString(String.Format("http://api.hostip.info/?ip={0}&position=true",
ip));
                }

                var xmlResponse = XDocument.Parse(r);
                var gml = (XNamespace)"http://www.opengis.net/gml";
                var ns = (XNamespace)"http://www.hostip.info/api";

                try
                {
                    result = (from x in xmlResponse.Descendants(ns +
"Hostip")
                              select new LocationInfo
                              {
                                  CountryCode = x.Element(ns +
"countryAbbrev").Value,
                                  CountryName = x.Element(ns +
"countryName").Value,
                                  Latitude = float.Parse(x.Descendants(gml +
"coordinates").Single().Value.Split(',')[0]),
                                  Longitude = float.Parse(x.Descendants(gml
+ "coordinates").Single().Value.Split(',')[1]),
                                  Name = x.Element(gml + "name").Value
                              }).SingleOrDefault();
                }
                catch (NullReferenceException)
                {
                    //Looks like we didn't get what we expected.
                }

            return result;
        }

"Cihan" <cihan_karagul@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O7j6BQgDKHA.1540@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Hello,
I am looking for a .Net code which finds location information (country ,
city, streetname, postcode) for a specific IP-address.

Maybe there is webservice to do this. It is also can be usefull.

Best Regards.

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