Easy way to download a file

[Saint]

Is there an easy way to download a file using .NET 2.0??? I know I saw something a long time ago that had a very simple downloader, just two lines long - any one know how to do it???

[brackett]

System.Net.WebClient I think is what you're looking for.

[Jordan]

Yes, this is very easy to use to download. Here is C# code to download a file:

System.Net.WebClient Client = new System.Net.WebClient();
Client.DownloadFile("http://www.url.com/file.ext", string.Concat("C:\file\path", "filename"));

This is untested but converted code to C++ 2.0 should look like:

System::Net::WebClient Client = new System::Net::WebClient();
Client->DownloadFile("http://url", string.Concat("c:\path", "filename"));

[Void]

The code you posted Jordan works in VC++ .NET 2.0. I've actually used this before to download small ascii based files only - anyone ever used it for something large? Is there a way to get a progress of download?

[RobSoftware]

To get progess you would probably have to write your own library that uses sockets to connect and download.

[brackett]

There's a System.Net.Web.WebClient.DownloadProgressChanged event that you can use for large(ish) async downloads.