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How can we convert a local path to a UNC path in c#?
Uniform Naming Convention (UNC): According to wiki, UNC specifies a common syntax to describe the location of a network resource, such as a shared file, directory, or printer in Windows OS. In client-server development, we can send a server path to its...
Posted: 07-24-2009 9:27 PM by Razan | with no comments
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Testing server whether it is reachable or not in c#
In client server development, we need this feature in many situations including: When client starts before server, it should periodically check whether server is UP or not. As soon as it gets server is up, it will connect with it to do its own business...
Posted: 07-18-2009 1:46 PM by Razan | with no comments
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IP address spoofing in c# using P/Invoke
According to Wiki, the term IP (Internet Protocol) address spoofing refers to the creation of IP packets with a forged (spoofed) source IP address with the purpose of concealing the identity of the sender or impersonating another computing system. For...
Posted: 04-24-2009 1:19 PM by Razan | with no comments
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Testing whether two IP addresses are in the same network using c#.
IPv4 address has two basic parts:  the network part and the host part. As we know, if network potions of two IPs are same, they are in the same network. By performing and operation between subnet mask and IP address, we can get the network portion...
Posted: 04-22-2009 2:14 PM by Razan | with no comments
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Finding subnet mask from IP4 address using c#.
IP4 addresses are categorized into 5 classes. For the  first three classes we have predefined subnet mask. So if we can detect the class of an IP address , we can determine the corresponding subnet mask. The address ranges used for each class are...
Posted: 04-22-2009 2:07 PM by Razan | with no comments
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How can we get the first IP4 Address of the local machine in c#?
When we write client server or peer to peer application, a frequent task is to find the first IP4 address of local machine. A machine has multiple types of addresses besides IP4 and IP6. For this reason, we will first get the address list of the machine...
Posted: 03-27-2009 9:20 PM by Razan | with no comments
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