IPv4InterfaceProperties.UsesWins Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Net.NetworkInformation

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Net.NetworkInformation.dll

Gets a Boolean value that indicates whether an interface uses Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).

C#

[System.Runtime.Versioning.SupportedOSPlatform("windows")]
[System.Runtime.Versioning.SupportedOSPlatform("linux")]
public abstract bool UsesWins { get; }

Property Value

Boolean

true if the interface uses WINS; otherwise, false.

Attributes

SupportedOSPlatformAttribute

Examples

The following code example gets an IPv4InterfaceProperties object and displays its data.

C#

public static void DisplayIPv4NetworkInterfaces()
{
    NetworkInterface[] nics = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
    IPGlobalProperties properties = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties();
    Console.WriteLine("IPv4 interface information for {0}.{1}",
       properties.HostName, properties.DomainName);
    Console.WriteLine();

    foreach (NetworkInterface adapter in nics)
    {
        // Only display informatin for interfaces that support IPv4.
        if (!adapter.Supports(NetworkInterfaceComponent.IPv4))
        {
            continue;
        }
        Console.WriteLine(adapter.Description);
        // Underline the description.
        Console.WriteLine(String.Empty.PadLeft(adapter.Description.Length,'='));
        IPInterfaceProperties adapterProperties = adapter.GetIPProperties();
        // Try to get the IPv4 interface properties.
        IPv4InterfaceProperties p = adapterProperties.GetIPv4Properties();

        if (p == null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("No IPv4 information is available for this interface.");
            Console.WriteLine();
            continue;
        }
        // Display the IPv4 specific data.
        Console.WriteLine("  Index ............................. : {0}", p.Index);
        Console.WriteLine("  MTU ............................... : {0}", p.Mtu);
        Console.WriteLine("  APIPA active....................... : {0}",
            p.IsAutomaticPrivateAddressingActive);
        Console.WriteLine("  APIPA enabled...................... : {0}",
            p.IsAutomaticPrivateAddressingEnabled);
        Console.WriteLine("  Forwarding enabled................. : {0}",
            p.IsForwardingEnabled);
        Console.WriteLine("  Uses WINS ......................... : {0}",
            p.UsesWins);
        Console.WriteLine();
    }
}

Remarks

WINS provides a distributed database for registering and querying dynamic NetBIOS names to IPv4 address mappings.

Applies to