Best way to programmatically configure network adapters in .NET

Question

I have an application written in C# that needs to be able to configure the network adapters in Windows. I have this basically working through WMI, but there are a couple of

Answer 1

with the help of @PaulB's answers help

NetworkInterface[] nics = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
Process p = new Process();
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo("netsh", "interface ip set address " + nics[0].Name + " static 192.168." + provider_ip + "." + index + " 255.255.255.0 192.168." + provider_ip + ".1 1");
p.StartInfo = psi;
p.StartInfo.Verb = "runas";
p.Start();