Ping (System.Net.NetworkInformation) Visual Studio 2005

[ScarEye]

Hey guys, I am trying to create a new ping program in Visual Studio 2005. And I need alittle help. After doing alittle reading/research I have come up with this.


Imports System.Net.NetworkInformation
'
Public Class frmMain
'
Dim p As Ping
Dim pReply As PingReply
'
Private Sub btnPing_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPing.Click

Try

p = New Ping

pReply = p.Send(txtAddress.Text)

lblStatus.Text = pReply.Status.ToString

Catch pExc As PingException

MessageBox.Show(pExc.InnerException.Message)

End Try

End Sub



This line here "lblStatus.Text = pReply.Status.ToString" What I would like to happen is. If the reply is "Success" <--- then this should display in the color green. If they reply is "Failed" then I would like this color to be red. Any idea's on how I can acomplish this ?


Thanks
ScarEye

[dbasnett]

You'll either be setting the forecolor or backcolor depending on your meaning. Forecolor for the text, backcolor for the box. e.g.

lblStatus.BackColor = Color.Green

[ScarEye]

You'll either be setting the forecolor or backcolor depending on your meaning. Forecolor for the text, backcolor for the box.

dbasnett,

Thanks for your reply. But can you help me with the code. I should have specified that I am a newb at this.

Thanks for your quick reply. Keep in mind depending on the reply it will be either Green(Success) or Red(Failed)

So, in a nutshell if

pReply.Status.ToString = Success (GREEN)
pReply.Status.ToString = Failed (RED)

ScarEye

[dbasnett]

dbasnett,

Thanks for your reply. But can you help me with the code. I should have specified that I am a newb at this.

Thanks for your quick reply. Keep in mind depending on the reply it will be either Green(Success) or Red(Failed)

So, in a nutshell if

pReply.Status.ToString = Success (GREEN)
pReply.Status.ToString = Failed (RED)

ScarEye

lblStatus.Text = pReply.Status.ToString
if preply.status = ??? then ' you need the code for success at ???
lblStatus.BackColor = Color.Green 
else 
lblStatus.BackColor = Color.Red
end if

[ScarEye]

dbasnett,

THANK YOU A MILLION BRO. I can't express how grateful I am. I have one more question. I am going to ask in a minute.

[ScarEye]

Okay, here is my question. I am going to have about 20 IP's to ping. What is the most fastest efficient way of doing this. Any help/code is greatly appreciated.


So I will have 20 Text Address Box (IP's will go here) and 20 Label Box (Success or Failed) will go here. So when the user clicks on the
"Ping Button" it should just cycle through all the IP's and get the results.

Thanks In Advance
ScarEye

[mendhak]

Kick off a series of asynchronous threads, each one pinging one of the IP addresses, and returning a result.

[ScarEye]

Kick off a series of asynchronous threads, each one pinging one of the IP addresses, and returning a result.

mendhak,

Thanks for your quick reply, judging by your name you seem to be Desi.

Anyway, I was reading about asynchronous threading, can you (or anyone) give me an example on how I can do this with my code ?

The IP's I will be using are as follows:

192.168.1.1
192.168.2.1
192.168.3.1

All the way through 192.168.20.1


Thanks In Advance
ScarEye

[mendhak]

Have a read/practice here:

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/5251/3/

[ScarEye]

Have a read/practice here:

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/5251/3/

Thanks, I will read through that doc.


Thanks for your time, I really appreciate it.


ScarEye