I am trying to create the following functionality in inno setup.
The user is asked to enter a port they wish my application to communicate on. Once they have entered a port they can hit a check button. This check button will run some code to see whether the port on the installation machine is available.
So far I am fine with creating the input box for the user to enter the port they wish to test. I have the following code to test whether the port is available.
int port = 456; //<--- This is your value
bool isAvailable = true;
// Evaluate current system tcp connections. This is the same information provided
// by the netstat command line application, just in .Net strongly-typed object
// form. We will look through the list, and if our port we would like to use
// in our TcpClient is occupied, we will set isAvailable to false.
IPGlobalProperties ipGlobalProperties = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties();
TcpConnectionInformation[] tcpConnInfoArray = ipGlobalProperties.GetActiveTcpConnections();
foreach (TcpConnectionInformation tcpi in tcpConnInfoArray)
{
if (tcpi.LocalEndPoint.Port == port)
{
isAvailable = false;
break;
}
}
Console.WriteLine("Port is available");
My first question is: is it possible to return to inno setup the true or false value from the port test code? If its false then I need to let the user know.
My second question is: is the port test code correct?
My third question is: am I right in thinking I will then potentially need to open that port in the firewall.