Sabrina the Fifth!

I will piggyback onto...

1. this,
2. this,
3. this,
4. and this
5. by letting you know that I figured out how to "find myself" within a WinForms app:

using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication
{
   public partial class Form1 : Form
   {
      public Form1()
      {
         InitializeComponent();
         label1.Text = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
      }
   }
}

 
 

When I ran the app from Visual Studio label1 ended up with this in it:

C:\Apps\WinFormsApp\WindowsFormsApplication\WindowsFormsApplication\bin\Debug

 
 

When I published the app and then ran it label1 ended up with this in it:

C:\Users\Thomas\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\NZX70T3A.BEY\WN7LA04B.TR4\wind..tion_c42fbaf68a73d8f4_0001.0000_4abed88245962350

While I am doing "Where Am I?" stuff, I wrote a scrapper for http://www.ipchicken.com/ which has not changed significantly since Dustin Wells first showed it to me in 2005. If you call the one public method, you will get back your IP in a string. The code in black exists only to accomodate IPv6 IP addresses. I do not have one myself so I could not test the IPv6 stuff. I also do not know if ipchicken will handle IPv6s correctly either.

using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
namespace WhereAmI.Models
{
   public static class PublicIp
   {
      public static string Get()
      {
         string[] scrappings = ScrapeService().Split(">".ToCharArray());
         string ip = null;
         foreach (string scrapping in scrappings)
         {
            if (scrapping.IndexOf(".") > -1)
            {
               string[] subscrappings = scrapping.Split(".".ToCharArray());
               if (subscrappings.Length == 4 && ip == null)
               {
                  foreach (char character in scrapping.Split("<".ToCharArray())[0].ToLower())
                  {
                     if (IsCharacterOfIp(character))
                     {
                        ip = ip + character;
                     }
                  }
               }
            }
         }
         return ip;
      }
      
      private static string ScrapeService()
      {
         string url = "http://www.ipchicken.com/";
         HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
         StringBuilder scrappingSpool = new StringBuilder();
         using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
         {
            using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
            {
               int counter = 0;
               byte[] buffer = new byte[1000000];
               do
               {
                  counter = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                  if (counter != 0)
                  {
                     string chunk = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, counter);
                     scrappingSpool.Append(chunk);
                  }
               } while (counter > 0);
            }
         }
         return scrappingSpool.ToString();
      }
      
      private static bool IsCharacterOfIp(char character)
      {
         if (character == '0') return true;
         if (character == '1') return true;
         if (character == '2') return true;
         if (character == '3') return true;
         if (character == '4') return true;
         if (character == '5') return true;
         if (character == '6') return true;
         if (character == '7') return true;
         if (character == '8') return true;
         if (character == '9') return true;
         if (character == 'a') return true;
         if (character == 'b') return true;
         if (character == 'c') return true;
         if (character == 'd') return true;
         if (character == 'e') return true;
         if (character == 'f') return true;
         if (character == ':') return true;
         if (character == '%') return true;
         if (character == '.') return true;
         return false;
      }
   }
}