grab file from url location

[Mark Broadbent]

I'm sure this must be extremely easy. What I want to do is to grab a text
file that is republished on the internet daily, and save this to disk. Can
someone point me to a class that I can use to do this? For the latter part I
presume I'd need to use a Filestream object to save this file.

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Mark,

Don't worry, it is extremely easy.
You use a webclient for file download.

using System.Web;

WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadFile("http://www.somesite.com/info.txt", "c:\\info.txt");

Happy coding!
Morten

 

[Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]]

Hi Mark,

System.Net.WebClient

 

[Mark Broadbent]

I'll give it a go

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Oh yeah, as Dmitriy pointed out, it's System.Net, not System.Web

 

[Mark Broadbent]

yeah thanks (did a search for the class). got it going now