Using Microsoft Internet Controls ,,,

[Guest]

Hi EveryBody:

As we know in classic vb we can use win32 api functions to check if the
computer connected to the internet or not.And also to connect to the internet.

My question is Can I Check the connection to the internet or I connect to
the internet in Vb.Net by adding Microsoft Internet Controls as reffrance to
my project instaed of using win32 api ?

If yes how can I do that ?

Any help or redirection will be appreciated

regard's

Husam

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Hussam,

Depends, in version 2005 is a direct tools for this to do a ping, you can
take for that a server with a trustable response time.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/he5sca5t.aspx

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

As we know in classic vb we can use win32 api functions to check if the
computer connected to the internet or not.And also to connect to the
internet.

My question is Can I Check the connection to the internet or I connect to
the internet in Vb.Net by adding Microsoft Internet Controls as reffrance
to
my project instaed of using win32 api ?

AFAIK no, but dialling an internet connection is really easy even with
p/invoke:

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/code/net/#InternetDial>