Fastest way to test internet connection

Question

C# 2008 SP1

I am using this code to connect to our client website. This is for a softphone application. Before the user makes a call, the softphone has to test if th

Answer 1

You can reference the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices namespace to use the NetworkAvailableEventHandler delegate and Network class. I use Network.IsAvailable property and Network.NetworkAvailabilityChanged event to check that the network is there (or is affected later), and then do an HTTP GET to my server to see if the server is there.

This helps with reporting the issue a bit more specifically, instead of "can't see network".