MAC address in Windows 7

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Hello sir

Please help me in these two issues

1. Below code shows mac address in XP but empty string in Windows7.
2. Is there any chance to find mac address directly with a query instead of looping "foreach" statement.

string MACAddress = String.Empty;
ManagementClass mc = new ManagementClass("Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration");
                ManagementObjectCollection moc = mc.GetInstances();                
                foreach (ManagementObject mo in moc)
                {
                    if (MACAddress == String.Empty) // only return MAC Address from first card  
                    {
                        if ((bool)mo["IPEnabled"] == true) MACAddress = mo["MacAddress"].ToString();
                    }
                    mo.Dispose();
                }

                MACAddress = MACAddress.Replace(":", "");
                return MACAddress;

Posted 22-Sep-11 1:27am

varaprasadreddy

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Mario Majčica · Answer 1 · 2011-09-22T01:29:00

Check this out

C#

/// <summary>
/// returns the mac address of the first operation nic found.
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
private string GetMacAddress()
{
    string macAddresses = "";

    foreach (NetworkInterface nic in NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces())
    {
        if (nic.OperationalStatus == OperationalStatus.Up)
        {
            macAddresses += nic.GetPhysicalAddress().ToString();
            break;
        }
    }
    return macAddresses;
}

More info here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.networkinformation.networkinterface.aspx[^]

Cheers!

varaprasadreddy · Answer 2 · 2011-10-02T13:54:00

Solution 2

dear sir thanks for the reply.

i got the mac address when the cable is plugged, but when i unplugged it got the same error(empty string). Most of my clients are not having net connection.

is there any alternate way to get mac address in win 7?

Posted 2-Oct-11 13:54pm