Issue of changing IPAddress programatically in windows vista

[rufusking]

My requirement is to change the IP Address of local system programatically using .net.
IP Address should change to 10.1.2.100, subnet mask = 255.255.255.0, default gateway=10.1.2.1

I have created a small C# Console application in Visual Studio 2005 which change the IP address of the local system. I execute the following batch file using Process.Start("ipchange1.bat");

Content of batch file is:

set path=c:\Windows\System32
netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" static 10.1.2.100 255.255.255.0 10.1.2.1 1

The above application is not working in Vista. It showed the error message as "The requested operation requires elevation".
To solve this error I added a new file to the project entitled ipApplication.exe.manifest
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" name="ipApplication" type="win32"/>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator"/>
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
</assembly>

I embeded the manifest into my executable by adding the below code in Project Properties -> Build Events -> Post-build event command line

"$(DevEnvDir)..\..\SDK\v2.0\bin\mt.exe" -manifest "$(ProjectDir)$(TargetName).exe.manifest" –outputresource:"$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)";#1

when I click on the generated exe file in bin/Debug it is working fine, but I need to run this application at the end of the installation of a setup package. I added the exe file in Commit part of Custom Action.

At the end of installation I got an error 2869.

I solved the issue by getting help from this link:
http://hunter555.blogspot.com/2007/02/installer-error-code-2869-msi-and-uac.html

The program is working fine at the end of installation but, It is changing the IP Address abnormally
The changed IP Address is 169.254.1.234, Subnet Mask=255.255.0.0, Default Gateway=10.1.2.1

I don't know how to proceed further can anyone guide me with the above issue or do anyone have an alternate solution??

Need your kind support

Thanks and Regards,
Raja.

[ownageseeker]

can u do this for windows xp?