\nYou can use a MaskedTextBox with the mask "###.###.###.###"
\nHowever its often best just to use a standard text box as the masked text box approah creates issues. Note that the Windows network setup IP address box is not based on a standard tool unfortunately.\n<\/p>\n
\nIPAddress::TryParse doesn't accept leading zeros's (as it deals with them as octals – bloody stupid but there you go).
\nSo you have to remove them. Do this:\n<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n\tString ^EnteredIpAddress;\r\n\tString ^ParseIpAddress;\r\n\tSystem::Net::IPAddress ^IpAddress;\r\n\r\n\tEnteredIpAddress = txtIpAddress->Text->Replace(" ", "0");\t\/\/For masked text box convert spaces to zero's\r\n\r\n\t\/\/Remove any leading zero's for the parse function (which treats them as octal markers)\r\n\tParseIpAddress = "." + EnteredIpAddress;\t\t\t\/\/Add a leading "."\r\n\tParseIpAddress = ParseIpAddress->Replace(".0", ".");\t\/\/Remove a leading zero\r\n\tParseIpAddress = ParseIpAddress->Replace(".0", ".");\t\/\/Remove a leading zero\r\n\tParseIpAddress = ParseIpAddress->Replace("..", ".0.");\t\t\/\/Correct any bytes which we're zero\r\n\tParseIpAddress = ParseIpAddress->Substring(1);\t\t\/\/Remove the leading "." again\r\n\tif (!System::Net::IPAddress::TryParse(ParseIpAddress, IpAddress))\r\n\t\tIpAddress = IPAddress::Parse("0.0.0.0");\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nAlternatively, as a function to call
\n<\/h5>\n\r\n\r\n\t\/\/***************************************\r\n\t\/\/***************************************\r\n\t\/\/********** FORMAT IP ADDRESS **********\r\n\t\/\/***************************************\r\n\t\/\/***************************************\r\n\tprivate: String ^FormatIpAddress (String ^EnteredIpAddress)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\tString ^ParseIpAddress;\r\n\t\tSystem::Net::IPAddress ^IpAddress;\r\n\r\n\t\tEnteredIpAddress = EnteredIpAddress->Replace(" ", "");\r\n\r\n\t\t\/\/Remove any leading zero's\r\n\t\tParseIpAddress = "." + EnteredIpAddress;\t\t\t\/\/Add a leading "."\r\n\t\tParseIpAddress = ParseIpAddress->Replace(".0", ".");\t\/\/Remove a leading zero\r\n\t\tParseIpAddress = ParseIpAddress->Replace(".0", ".");\t\/\/Remove a leading zero\r\n\t\tParseIpAddress = ParseIpAddress->Replace("..", ".0.");\t\t\/\/Correct any bytes which we're zero\r\n\t\tParseIpAddress = ParseIpAddress->Substring(1);\t\t\/\/Remove the leading "." again\r\n\t\tif (!System::Net::IPAddress::TryParse(ParseIpAddress, IpAddress))\r\n\t\t\tIpAddress = IPAddress::Parse("0.0.0.0");\r\n\r\n\t\treturn(IpAddress->ToString());\r\n\t}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nConnverting from a IPAddress to a String
\n<\/h4>\n\r\n\r\n\tsTemp = IpAddress1->ToString();\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nConnverting from a string to IP Address
\n<\/h4>\n\r\n\r\n\tIPAddress ^address;\r\n\tif (!IPAddress::TryParse(OurIpString, address))\r\n\t\taddress = IPAddress::Parse("255.255.255.255");\t\/\/Error - use default broadast address\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nConnverting from a IP Address To Bytes
\n<\/h4>\n\r\n\r\n\tIPEndPoint^ tempIpEP = gcnew IPEndPoint(SourceIpAddress,0);\r\n\tEndPoint^ tempRemoteEP = safe_cast<EndPoint^>(tempIpEP);\r\n\tSocketAddress^ ThisSocket = tempRemoteEP->Serialize();\r\n\tif (ThisSocket->Family == AddressFamily::InterNetwork)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\tPort = Convert::ToInt16(ThisSocket[2]) << 8;\t\/\/Port number is in bytes 2:3\r\n\t\tPort |= Convert::ToInt16(ThisSocket[3]);\r\n\r\n\t\trxIpBytes[0] = ThisSocket[4];\t\/\/IP Address in bytes 4:7\r\n\t\trxIpBytes[1] = ThisSocket[5];\r\n\t\trxIpBytes[2] = ThisSocket[6];\r\n\t\trxIpBytes[3] = ThisSocket[7];\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IP Address Text Entry Box You can use a MaskedTextBox with the mask "###.###.###.###" However its often best just to use a standard text box as the masked text box approah creates issues. Note that the Windows network setup IP address box is not based on a standard tool unfortunately. Parsing Removing Leading Zero's IPAddress::TryParse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcp-ip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}