Get network category name (private/public/domain) from WPF with C# (.NET 7)

Question

In PowerShell I can use Get-NetConnectionProfile to get the NetworkCategory (private/public/domain). How can I do this from C# from a WPF app. I can see there are some examples using NetworkInformation.GetConnectionProfiles(); but that appears to be for UWP apps only.

Answer 1

@Andrew Jones, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, you could try the following code to get category name from wpf.

First of all, please ensure that you add the reference Network List Manager 1.0 Type Library from COM option.

Code:

private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {

            var manager = new NetworkListManager();
            var connectedNetworks = manager.GetNetworks(NLM_ENUM_NETWORK.NLM_ENUM_NETWORK_ALL).Cast<INetwork>();
            foreach (var network in connectedNetworks)
            {
                listbox1.Items.Add(network.GetCategory().ToString());
            }
        }

Tested result:

Best Regards,

Jack

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