How can I download a file from my website, put it in the Application.StartUpPath, Delete the old file, and then run the new one that I just downloaded?
Also, the old file and the new file should have the same name (demo.bat), so will windows automatically replace the old one with the new one, or will I have to program it to do that?
vb.net
Dim request As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://halfbot.webs.com/hBot%20Update/EliteVersion.txt")
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I'd like to make the form load, and then download a file from a URL to a designated path, and then make it's Progress to affect the Progress Bar. How do I do that?
View 7 Replieswhat i want to do is download a file off the internet. but what i want to do is for it to make a folder in program files called for example downloaded contect here and for it to download the file there is that possible so when i push download it will add the folder and download the contents to that folder is that possible
View 3 RepliesThis seems really dumb but I go to this site - [URL] and click on the link for Visual Basic 2010 Express, select English as the language and I get the file vb_web.exe. The file installs Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. All of the tools in it seem to be for web development only.Where is vb express 2010 download for creating Windows forms, console apps etc.? (or am I missing something "basic" -- sorry about that -- regarding how the 2010 version works?
View 7 RepliesI have a ftp download in a background session that updates to a progressbar, file download takes about 2 minutes and it works great, gives me the length that has been downloaded, total size, and the bytes remaining.I thought it would be cool to have the speed show as well but not sure I have all the info to work with, or how exactly to do it. This is my loop, and what I do have works fine just want to have the speed show as well if possible:[code]
View 5 RepliesIs it possible to download a stand alone file for installing VS 2010 Expres Edition ?
View 3 RepliesI'm beginner on VB 2010 and I wanna write an app that can downloads file My question is: If it gives me 404 or 403 or whatever, I wanna let the app ignore that message, instead of a webexception error Note: I've already know how to download file with VB
View 2 Replies2008/2010 - automatically download a file from a website that generates
View 2 RepliesI open a word document in webbrower, but some File Download dialog box opens up with three buttons Open, Save and Cancel. I always wants to open the document directly instead to click on open button.
View 5 RepliesI have a website which has a section under maintenance with a button called create a new file - when you click on this button it does a backup and generate a filename on the same page called *.tbf - the filename changes each time you click on create a new file
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i'm still needing help to my "Download file names into Combobox1 from webserver's folder".I have folder at my webserver http://127.0.0.1/FolderName/ and inside my folder is alot of .txt files and here is few of them: A,B,C and D.txt file.
So when form loads i want my application download file names what are in my webserver folder TO Combobox1 then Combobox1 may look like this.
Combobox1
|_ A
|_ B
|_ C
|_ D
I have tried to solve this a few weeks :P
I usually download file using following code:My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("url of the file","filepath to save the file")But recently I encountered a site that only allow file download if you click it from its site and not via direct downloading from vb.net code.How to download file from http server that requires a referral before allowing the download?
View 1 RepliesWhat is the meaning of asynchronous file download and synchronous file download ?
I came to them while using system.net.webclient class
I know a basic meaning of tcp/ip and http .
i try to download multiple file + progressbar.. but its seems nothing happened and the file is not download.. my program just function like.. when the file was error.. it will download the latest file from webhost..
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Imports System.Net
Public Class DownloadStuff
Dim downloader As New WebClient()
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I want to download thousands of files from the web and save them locally. What is the most efficient way? It is important the failures timeout within 10 seconds.
Is there a better way to stream one stream into another? Maybe a smaller buffer, like 1024 bytes at a time, is more efficient for large files?
Dim w_req As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = CType(System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://blah.blah.blah/blah.html"), System.Net.HttpWebRequest)
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I'm using visual basic 2010 express..I'm building my own web browser and want to add a download manager.I have been able to build one that will download a file if I type the file location into a text box.What I'm trying to figure out is how to have the download manager open when I click on a download link on a web page.How to make the download manager know it is a link to a downloadable file as opposed to something like a link to another webpage?
View 3 RepliesI have created a application in vb.net. I am using Web Browser control in it.With this Web Browser control I open an URL and tries to Download something, it will populates an dialog for "File Download" to Open/Save/Cancel for the file..I am downloading the .ZIP file, and it will not show the checkbox for Automatically Do.Is there any way to perform the Download operation at the backend, means it will not ask me for such options.
View 2 RepliesReading a .txt file in VB.net. My file path is C:UsersMyLilMulePepeDocumentsVisual Studio 2008Projectscurtain_calls.txt.
This is my line of Dim LoanOptionsFile As String = "C:UsersMyLilMulePepeDocumentsVisual Studio 2008Projectscurtain_calls.txt"
I can read the file when I run the program, but how do I write the file path so that someone else can download my program and file and read the file on their system?
I cannot read filename in response header:Content-Disposition: inline; filename="
View 6 RepliesI am writing a Windows Form program to automatically download and store generated PDF reports from a web site using the WebBrowser Control. The web site uses Ajax to link an icon back to the source aspx file which then returns a PDF file.
The problem I have is that the WebBrowser control brings up the File Save As dialog box when the PDF file is returned and I can find no way of handling this to cature and save the returned file. I have found other examples of how to manage this using the Navagating event to validate the extension of the file that is being accessed (e.g. [URL] and, if not an HTM, file then use the HTTP Web control to directly download the file. Unfortunately this will not work as the call references a .aspx page.
How can i make a button that download a file using http show a progress bar about the downloading file state?
View 10 Repliesi made downloader that will display the following items to the user. The Name of the file that the user is downloading The Url Were the file is being saved The Size of the file The speed at which the file is being downloaded And the Status. But the Problem is that the downloader can only download one file at a time. How can i make a multiple file downloader Which if the user wants to download 2 or 23 files he can.
View 13 RepliesI'm looking for a way to (easily, by preference ;)) create a download link to a file on a separate file server.The situation is as follows: the application I'm developing (asp.net 2.0 in vb.net but I have a similar issue in c#, either solution works for me) will be run internally for a company.As is good practice, the file storage and web application are on two separate servers.I basically need to be able to create a download link to a file, the only available URL i have to access the file is servernamefolder1folder2folder3file.txt (can be any sort of file)[code]Which doesn't work for obvious reasons. It used to be set up to write that file to the application path itself and that worked perfectly, but it isn't good practice and that's why I'm changing it (or trying to).I read solutions about creating a download page and then having a table in your DB which holds the links and returns the proper web URL for download but the time constraint I am faced with unfortunately doesn't allow me to develop that.
Assuming I can provide a string with the full filepath to the file like the above, what is the easiest way to just create a link that, when clicked, downloads the document? I have 0 admin rights in this environment. That really isn't helping me. Let's assume I am given the correct link like above and have the appropriate file access rights and such.The above example does work in IE, but not in Firefox and Chrome. IE converts it to a file://servername/... link which does what it's supposed to, but FF and Chrome both actively decided that this is unsafe and have disabled it from their browsers.
im going get ot the point i just wanta download a file from a url and have it zip to a specific user defined fileurl so here is my fake code please put in vb 2008 language. [code]
View 1 Repliesi want to automatic file download using vb from an https site.i don't know the full file name. the file name is make up by 2 pieces, i only the 1st portion of filename.
View 2 RepliesWhat is the best method of downloading files in visual basic?
View 8 RepliesImagine i hade a .txt here: site.com/file.txt And my program should download that text file when i click a button. How would i save it to the path of the program/ to c:/? Like: c:/File/file.txt
View 1 RepliesI am using the code below to download an image from the web. (Please don't say there are easier ways, i know that but i want to use this way) The problem is, is that i think the script is going trough all the 1000000 bytes defined. If i use less than this, the image sometimes comes out half done (like the bottom is gray) and if i use more i get a memory exception. Is there a way to use precisely enough? (So just as much as the image is?)
Function FetchURL(ByVal SomeURL As String, ByVal Referer As String, ByVal downloadto As String) As String
MsgBox(downloadto)
Dim WebResp As HttpWebResponse
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