IP address in windows phone 8

Question

i need to find the IP address of the phone my software is running on. I would have thought that is straight forward but having searched the forums it seems like (unbelievabl

Answer 1

Of course there is a way to find the phones IP address. Here is a MSDN blog blog article which explains how to do it: Finding Your Own IP Address On Windows Phone Mango

I've just tested it on my Nokia Lumia 920 (Windows Phone 8) and it works just fine. However, this just works on WiFi due to the used multicast IP.