IPGlobalProperties::IsWinsProxy Property

 

Gets a Boolean value that specifies whether the local computer is acting as a Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) proxy.

Namespace:   System.Net.NetworkInformation
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)

public:
property bool IsWinsProxy {
	virtual bool get() abstract;
}

Property Value

Type: System::Boolean

true if the local computer is a WINS proxy; otherwise, false.

Exception Condition
NetworkInformationException

A Win32 function call failed.

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

The following code example displays network information for the local computer.

IPGlobalProperties ^ properties = IPGlobalProperties::GetIPGlobalProperties();
Console::WriteLine( "Computer name: {0}", properties->HostName );
Console::WriteLine( "Domain name:   {0}", properties->DomainName );
Console::WriteLine( "Node type:     {0:f}", properties->NodeType );
Console::WriteLine( "DHCP scope:    {0}", properties->DhcpScopeName );
Console::WriteLine( "WINS proxy?    {0}", properties->IsWinsProxy );

NetworkInformationPermission

for reading network information. Associated enumeration: Read.

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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