'Long' IP Address - resolved

Hi, there's a function (named identfiers) in mIRC scripting that returns a 'long' format of an IP address, the values both act as real IP addresses and return the same result upon a dns lookup.
I was wondering how I would achieve this in VB?
Below is a quote from the mIRC help file if your lost.

Quote:

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$longip(address)
Converts an IP address into a long value and vice-versa.

$longip(158.152.50.239) returns 2660774639
$longip(2660774639) returns 158.152.50.239

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Cheers.
-adeh

After a calculation i've come up with this
Just a calculation and nothing special regarding VB


((158*256+152)*256+50)*256+239

See the example:

Cheers! :)