How to Determine the geolocation of a c# app user with c#

Question

1.00/5 (1 vote)

See more:

C#

C#4.0

Determine a user geolocation of a c# app

Posted 8-Mar-14 8:13am

Awolola Adedeji

Add a Solution

Comments

Ahmed Bensaid 8-Mar-14 14:26pm

http://blog.psychocoder.net/2012/08/26/c-meet-geolocation-geolocation-meet-c/

BillWoodruff 8-Mar-14 21:53pm

What type of GPS sensing hardware does your computer have ? If your computer has no GPS hardware, then all you can do is try and get the IP address of the current Internet connection, and then get location from that: that's possibly very inaccurate; the server handling the IP address may be a great distance from the user with that IP address.

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Valery Possoz · Answer 1 · 2014-03-08T09:00:00

Hello,

There is an assembly in .net that wraps all that! it is part of .net 4 and 4.5 see here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.device.location(v=vs.100).aspx[^]

Here is a good sample:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Windows-7-Geolocation-API-25585fac[^]

It's just a few lines of code:

C#

var watcher = new GeoCoordinateWatcher(); 
watcher.TryStart(false,TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(5000)); 
var coord = watcher.Position.Location;

You just need to make sure your computer sensors are enabled.

Valery.