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Native Wifi won't show all available Networks

So I followed this example: How to find a list of wireless networks (SSID's) C# and now have following code using Native Wifi (like the accepted answer of the link):
WlanClient client = new WlanClient();
foreach ( WlanClient.WlanInterface wlanIface in client.Interfaces )
{
Wlan.WlanAvailableNetwork[] networks = wlanIface.GetAvailableNetworkList( 0 );
foreach ( Wlan.WlanAvailableNetwork network in networks )
{
SomeListBox.Add(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(network.SSID, 0, (int)network.SSIDLength))
}
}
But this doesn't list all networks it only lists the one I'm currently connected to. Only if I press the Windows Wlan button in the taskbar, the code lists all networks. Did I do something wrong or is there a way to trigger this Windows Wlan scan thing?
Thanks in advance ;)

Ok so calling wlanIface.Scan(); before Wlan.WlanAvailableNetwork[] networks = wlanIface.GetAvailableNetworkList(0); did the thing for me so that the full code now looks like this:
WlanClient client = new WlanClient();
foreach ( WlanClient.WlanInterface wlanIface in client.Interfaces )
{
wlanIface.Scan();
Wlan.WlanAvailableNetwork[] networks = wlanIface.GetAvailableNetworkList(0);
foreach ( Wlan.WlanAvailableNetwork network in networks )
{
SomeListBox.Add(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(network.SSID, 0, (int)network.SSIDLength))
}
}

How to get MAC Address of client?

I am trying to get the MAC address of the client pc but it shows the mac address of the IIS server where my project is hosted.
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
NetworkInterface[] anics = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
foreach (NetworkInterface adapter in anics)
{
if (amacaddress == String.Empty)
{
IPInterfaceProperties properties = adapter.GetIPProperties();
amacaddress = adapter.GetPhysicalAddress().ToString();
lblname.Visible = true;
string ip = Request.UserHostAddress;
lblname.Text = "MAC Address is :- " + amacaddress + " "+ ip;
}
}
}

Yeah. That is similar to asking for getting the IMSI of a phone from a phone call - not possible, you call a phone number, the rest is implementation detail. MAC Addresses pretty much never travel more than one ethernet domain (next switch/router). They are not pat of the IP protocol layer. As such, you can not get them from the http request, which ultimatly is a TCP thus an IP connection. YOu will have to execute (C#, not javascript) code on the client to possibly get the local MAC AddressES - that is plural, there may be more than one (as in: 2 local network cards, a wireless adapter = 3 mac addresses).

Find ip of certain windows phone device in your local network

I'm trying to build C# app (desktop,windows, it doesn't really matter for now), with which I would like to connect to my windows phone, using sockets, to transfer some data... I know how this can be achieved,.
When connecting through sockets I don't want to manually enter windows phone device's IP address. So I want to know if it is possible to send some HTTP request from Windows phone app with some message, and fetch that message on computer, to be sure which IP is windows phone's IP?
In other words how to know which IP address belongs to Windows phone's IP address from Bunch of Ip addresses of devices on network?

Fallow this Link from Here
Add NameSpace :
using Windows.Networking;
public static string FindIPAddress()
{
List<string> ipAddresses = new List<string>();
var hostnames = NetworkInformation.GetHostNames();
foreach (var hn in hostnames)
{
//IanaInterfaceType == 71 => Wifi
//IanaInterfaceType == 6 => Ethernet (Emulator)
if (hn.IPInformation != null &&
(hn.IPInformation.NetworkAdapter.IanaInterfaceType == 71
|| hn.IPInformation.NetworkAdapter.IanaInterfaceType == 6))
{
string ipAddress = hn.DisplayName;
ipAddresses.Add(ipAddress);
}
}
if (ipAddresses.Count < 1)
{
return null;
}
else if (ipAddresses.Count == 1)
{
return ipAddresses[0];
}
else
{
//if multiple suitable address were found use the last one
//(regularly the external interface of an emulated device)
return ipAddresses[ipAddresses.Count - 1];
}
}
Edit:
If I am wrong You want to get particular Windows Phone IP address from bunch of IP addresses. AFAIK you can't get like this. But I suggest you to Append some string when getting IP of Windows Phone like below which will vary from other Ip addresses by looking it self.
string IPadd = FindIPAddress();
string WPIPadd = IPadd + " - Windows phone "
MessageDialog.show(WPIPadd);
If you find any thing new apart from this Let us know. Thanks

how to retrieve IP v6 subnet mask length

I'm coding an application that has to get the network adapters configuration on a Windows 7 machine just like it's done in the Windows network adapters configuration panel:
So far I can get pretty much all the information I need from NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces() EXCEPT the subnet prefix length.
I'm aware that it can be retrieved from the C++ struc PMIB_UNICASTIPADDRESS_TABLE via OnLinkPrefixLength but I'm trying to stay in .net.
I also took a look at the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WMI class but it only seems to return the IP v4 subnet mask.
I also know that some information (not the prefix length, as far as I know) are in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCPIP6\Parameters\Interfaces\{CLSID}
I also used SysInternals ProcessMon to try to get anything usefull when saving the network adapter settings but found nothing...
So, is there any clean .NET way to get this value? (getting it from the registry wouldn't be a problem)
EDIT: Gateways
This doesn't concern the actual question, but for those who need to retrieve the entire network adapter IPv6 configuration, the IPInterfaceProperties.GatewayAdresses property only supports the IPv4 gateways. As mentionned in the answer comments below, the only way to get the entire info until .NET framework 4.5 is to call WMI.

You can do so using Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration. You might have overlooked it.
IPSubnet will return an array of strings. Use the second value.
I didn't have time to whip up some C# code, but I'm sure you can handle it. Using WBEMTEST, I pulled this:
instance of Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
{
Caption = "[00000010] Intel(R) 82579V Gigabit Network Connection";
DatabasePath = "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\drivers\\etc";
DefaultIPGateway = {"192.168.1.1"};
Description = "Intel(R) 82579V Gigabit Network Connection";
DHCPEnabled = TRUE;
DHCPLeaseExpires = "20120808052416.000000-240";
DHCPLeaseObtained = "20120807052416.000000-240";
DHCPServer = "192.168.1.1";
DNSDomainSuffixSearchOrder = {"*REDACTED*"};
DNSEnabledForWINSResolution = FALSE;
DNSHostName = "*REDACTED*";
DNSServerSearchOrder = {"192.168.1.1"};
DomainDNSRegistrationEnabled = FALSE;
FullDNSRegistrationEnabled = TRUE;
GatewayCostMetric = {0};
Index = 10;
InterfaceIndex = 12;
IPAddress = {"192.168.1.100", "fe80::d53e:b369:629a:7f95"};
IPConnectionMetric = 10;
IPEnabled = TRUE;
IPFilterSecurityEnabled = FALSE;
IPSecPermitIPProtocols = {};
IPSecPermitTCPPorts = {};
IPSecPermitUDPPorts = {};
IPSubnet = {"255.255.255.0", "64"};
MACAddress = "*REDACTED*";
ServiceName = "e1iexpress";
SettingID = "{B102679F-36AD-4D80-9D3B-D18C7B8FBF24}";
TcpipNetbiosOptions = 0;
WINSEnableLMHostsLookup = TRUE;
WINSScopeID = "";
};
IPSubnet[1] = IPv6 subnet;
Edit: Here's some code.
StringBuilder sBuilder = new StringBuilder();
ManagementObjectCollection objects = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration").Get();
foreach (ManagementObject mObject in objects)
{
string description = (string)mObject["Description"];
string[] addresses = (string[])mObject["IPAddress"];
string[] subnets = (string[])mObject["IPSubnet"];
if (addresses == null && subnets == null)
continue;
sBuilder.AppendLine(description);
sBuilder.AppendLine(string.Empty.PadRight(description.Length,'-'));
if (addresses != null)
{
sBuilder.Append("IPv4 Address: ");
sBuilder.AppendLine(addresses[0]);
if (addresses.Length > 1)
{
sBuilder.Append("IPv6 Address: ");
sBuilder.AppendLine(addresses[1]);
}
}
if (subnets != null)
{
sBuilder.Append("IPv4 Subnet: ");
sBuilder.AppendLine(subnets[0]);
if (subnets.Length > 1)
{
sBuilder.Append("IPv6 Subnet: ");
sBuilder.AppendLine(subnets[1]);
}
}
sBuilder.AppendLine();
sBuilder.AppendLine();
}
string output = sBuilder.ToString().Trim();
MessageBox.Show(output);
and some output:
Intel(R) 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
------------------------------------------
IPv4 Address: 192.168.1.100
IPv6 Address: fe80::d53e:b369:629a:7f95
IPv4 Subnet: 255.255.255.0
IPv6 Subnet: 64
Edit: I'm just going to clarify in case somebody searches for this later. The second item isn't always the IPv6 value. IPv4 can have multiple addresses and subnets. Use Integer.TryParse on the IPSubnet array value to make sure it's an IPv6 subnet and/or use the last item.

Parse the input stream of netsh with arguments:
interface ipv6 show route
Hope this helps!

How to find a list of wireless networks (SSID's) in Java, C#, and/or C?

Is there a toolkit/package that is available that I could use to find a list of wireless networks (SSID's) that are available in either Java, C#, or C for Windows XP+? Any sample code would be appreciated.

For C#, take a look at the Managed Wifi API, which is a wrapper for the Native Wifi API provided with Windows XP SP2 and later.
I have not tested this code, but looking at the Managed Wifi API sample code, this should list the available SSIDs.
WlanClient client = new WlanClient();
foreach ( WlanClient.WlanInterface wlanIface in client.Interfaces )
{
// Lists all available networks
Wlan.WlanAvailableNetwork[] networks = wlanIface.GetAvailableNetworkList( 0 );
foreach ( Wlan.WlanAvailableNetwork network in networks )
{
Console.WriteLine( "Found network with SSID {0}.", GetStringForSSID(network.dot11Ssid));
}
}
static string GetStringForSSID(Wlan.Dot11Ssid ssid)
{
return Encoding.ASCII.GetString( ssid.SSID, 0, (int) ssid.SSIDLength );
}

ArrayList<String>ssids=new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String>signals=new ArrayList<String>();
ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder(
"cmd.exe", "/c", "netsh wlan show all");
builder.redirectErrorStream(true);
Process p = builder.start();
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String line;
while (true) {
line = r.readLine();
if (line.contains("SSID")||line.contains("Signal")){
if(!line.contains("BSSID"))
if(line.contains("SSID")&&!line.contains("name")&&!line.contains("SSIDs"))
{
line=line.substring(8);
ssids.add(line);
}
if(line.contains("Signal"))
{
line=line.substring(30);
signals.add(line);
}
if(signals.size()==7)
{
break;
}
}
}
for (int i=1;i<ssids.size();i++)
{
System.out.println("SSID name == "+ssids.get(i)+" and its signal == "+signals.get(i) );
}

Well, you didn't specify the OS so, for Linux I will suggest Wireless Tools for Linux by Jean Tourrilhes (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html). The iwlist() command displays a lot of information about the available networks. The source code is in C. Another way is to write your own code in C using libpcap for capturing the beacon frames and extracting SSID from them (in monitor mode only). I haven't tested my sniffing code yet so I won't paste it here but it is pretty simple job.