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Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Reducing the weight of our footer. Linked See more linked questions. Related Hot Network Questions. Viewed k times. What is a simple way of downloading a file from a URL path? Termininja 5, 12 12 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 46 46 bronze badges. Have a look at System. WebClient — seanb.
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Raj Kumar Raj Kumar 6, 5 5 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. The best solution ever but I would like to add 1 important line 'client. Though I think that WebClient seems like a much more straightforward and simple solution. DownloadFileTaskAsync new Uri " somesite.
Show 2 more comments. Include this namespace using System. Abdul Saleem Abdul Saleem 8, 4 4 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. The question asks for the simplest way. Making more complicated isn't making it the simplest. Most people would prefer a progress bar while downloading. So i just wrote the simplest way to do that. This might not be the answer but it meets the requirement of Stackoverflow. That is to help someone.
This is just as simple as the other answer if you just leave out the progress bar. Also the question doesn't ask for the simplest way, just a simple way. Jessedegans There is already an answer that shows how to simply download without a progressbar. Thats why I wrote an answer that helps with asynchronous download and progressbar implementation — Abdul Saleem. This answer is good, probably better and more detailed than the one with more upvotes.
It's almost obvious that one needs a progress indicator while downloading a file. The asynchronous functionality is a bonus. If id is 1, it will write my website logo to the client, else it will write my icon image to the client.
Clivant a. He owns techcoil. Nonetheless, the code is still straightforward to follow along with. Note that as per the previous example, whatever method you use the above code within needs to be marked with the async keyword. For any new development work, it is recommended that you use HttpClient. It has a number of advantages over WebClient , including more configuration options and it facilitates easier mocking and testing. However, it does have some disadvantages, such as the lack of built-in progress reporting.
In this article, I have covered the two main ways of downloading files using C and the. WebClient makes it really easy to download files, with its high-level API and it is available regardless of what. NET version you are targeting. Use HttpClient whenever you need more control and as the recommended option for new development. Yes, add me to your mailing list.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Home Blog About Contact. This example shows how to download files from any website to local disk. The simply way how to download file is to use WebClient class and its method DownloadFile.
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