Doing an FTP from .NET application

[Sinex]

Hi,
I have a windows application This guy monitors a directory on my PC
(using FileSystemWatcher). When any file is dropped into this directory, I
want the application to send that file(s) by FTP to an FTP server. What are
the classes that I should use?

 

[Adam]

The .NET Framework does not have a native FTP class, but there are many
thrid-party FTP libraries available that can do what you need. I would
do a search on Google for ".NET FTP class"

 

[Mark Rae]

I have a windows application This guy monitors a directory on my PC
(using FileSystemWatcher). When any file is dropped into this directory, I
want the application to send that file(s) by FTP to an FTP server. What
are
the classes that I should use?

As Adam has mentioned, there's no native FTP support in v1.x of the
Framework (though there is in v2.0).

I use this: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ftp-dotnet.asp

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Sinex,

Some links

Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;812409

Net Component
(Kudzu)
http://www.indyproject.org/indy.html

Others
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=4655
http://www.allapi.net/downloads/NetFTP.zip
http://www.visualbuilder.com/article/viewarticle.asp?id=1234
http://www.abderaware.com/ (commercial FTP component)

Code
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive9.html
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/FTPDriver1.asp


I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

 

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

Net Component
(Kudzu)
http://www.indyproject.org/indy.html

Thanks for remembering Indy, which BTW is open source and free.

But Indy is not just me, I just happen to be the verbal on on these forums
about it. Indy is actually develoeped by a team of about 40 developers and
has been around for nearly 10 years. I cant take credit for what is really
the work of a dedicated team of volunteers.



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[James Curran]

Thanks for remembering Indy, which BTW is open source and free.

However, I think we should point out that that link doesn't work
(returns a 404)

http://www.indyproject.org by itself works though...

 

[Peter Wone]

If you just want to fetch files from an FTP server I suspect that WebClient
will do it. Maybe not, I haven't checked.

If you want to serve FTP then read the RFC
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc959/ and implement it yourself.

I wrote a dotnet replacement for the largely useless MailMessage/SmptServer
classes and threw in the funcionality of MimeOLE (converts HTML with linked
resources into a mime encoded email with embedded resources and remapped
links). That only took me two days, and FTP is hardly a complex protocol,
especially with the sexy sophisticated socket and stream classes dotnet
provides. You should be done by lunchtime!

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Peter,

Just an addition, AFAIK does the webclient not download from a FTP server.

Cor