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IPAddress.GetAddressBytes Method

.NET Framework 4

Provides a copy of the IPAddress as an array of bytes.

Namespace:  System.Net
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)
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public byte[] GetAddressBytes()

Return Value

Type: System.Byte[]
A Byte array.

The following code example shows how to get a server IP address in byte format.

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Byte[] bytes = curAdd.GetAddressBytes();
for (int i = 0; i < bytes.Length; i++) 
{
  Console.Write(bytes[i]);
}

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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For those wondering about byte order
The following IP "127.0.0.1" will return array [127, 0, 0, 1] no matter the host byte order. As individual element are single byte, you don't need to care about each element byte order. You can convert from ip to byte array, change a byte, and convert again to ip and the result will be always the same across machines.

A similar question asked in stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1407938/c-ipaddress-getaddressbytes-method-what-byte-order

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What is the order of the bytes returned?
Are the bytes returned in network byte order or host byte order? I could obviously observe this, but I'm curious if it's system-dependent.
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