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How to get the client machine location name. for me i am not getting when i use

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture

its always showing United States even if my system location is changed to India or any other country name..

Posted 29-Nov-10 18:23pm

MathewPV

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Sunasara Imdadhusen 30-Nov-10 0:25am

What you want TimeZone or Location?

MathewPV 30-Nov-10 1:07am

the location in the sense the country name that the client gives

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Brij · Answer 1 · 2010-11-29T18:57:00

Solution 1

CurrentCulture does not give Location.It gives the culture information for the thread. If you want the location of the Client machine, then you need to get the IP address first, then from it you can get the location using some third party services

Posted 29-Nov-10 18:57pm

Brij

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MathewPV 30-Nov-10 1:11am

thank you Brij for your valuable answer i got the ip address i am stuck with that. please send me some links where i can find some third party services if you have any idea about that

Brij 30-Nov-10 2:41am

There is very good article, that talks about getting location of an IP and available free service. Have a look
http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Find-Visitors-Geographic-Location-using-IP-Address-in-ASP.Net.aspx

MathewPV 30-Nov-10 3:53am

Thank you Brij i have gone through the webpage in that

'Create a WebRequest

Dim rssReq As WebRequest = _

WebRequest.Create("http://freegeoip.appspot.com/xml/" _

& ipaddress)

'Create a Proxy

Dim px As New WebProxy("http://freegeoip.appspot.com/xml/" _

& ipaddress, True)

there is some site mentioned is that a demo site after some time they make it paid..

Rajesh Anuhya · Answer 2 · 2010-11-30T00:04:00

Solution 2

Go through this.., this may helps you

http://www.programmableweb.com/api/ip-address-lookup[^]

Posted 30-Nov-10 0:04am

Rajesh Anuhya