Smart way to get the public Internet IP address/geo loc

Question

I have a computer on the local network, behind a NAT router. I have some 192.168.0.x addresses, but I really want to know my public IP address, not somethin

Answer 1

I do it like this: I create a class that holds the geo location data

[Serializable]
public class LocationData
{
     public string IP { get; set; }
     public string CountryCode { get; set; }
     public string CountryName { get; set; }
     public string RegionCode { get; set; }
     public string City { get; set; }
     public string ZipCode { get; set; }
     public string TimeZone { get; set; }
     public string Latitude { get; set; }
     public string Longitude { get; set; }
     public string MetroCode { get; set; }
}

then I use the following code to call the geo data and fill the class.

public static LocationData GetLocation(string ip= "")
{
    using (var client = new System.Net.WebClient())
    {
         XmlRootAttribute xRoot = new XmlRootAttribute();
         xRoot.ElementName = "Response";
         string downloadedString = client.DownloadString("http://freegeoip.net/xml/" + ip);
           XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(LocationData), xRoot) ;
        using (XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(new System.IO.StringReader(downloadedString)))
        {
             return mySerializer.Deserialize(xmlReader)as LocationData;
        }
     }
}

as the answer is "bad" xml one needs to specify the xRoot element or one gets an error.

Happy coding

Walter