VS 2010 Make The Download Manager Know It Is Link To Downloadable File As Opposed To Something Like Link To Another Webpage?
Dec 4, 2010
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?
I am trying to automate file downloads. Sometimes I get to a webpage that has a file link to download a file, but it is not a direct link. Instead it is a PHP request on the server side, for the file.
Is it possible to automate this using the webbrowser control, or is there another way I can do this using VB .NET?
I'm planning to make a program that Allows the user to type in the Download Link of another program, and then Run it. I do not want the file to be saved on the user computer.
How to TextBox1 Pick text of "Download able" (.exe , rar) File link , during Navigation website. on my Own Webbrowser.i m using this method for downloading file! ineed solution of Pick Downloadable link
Dim webc As New System.Net.WebClient() webc.DownloadFile(textbox1.text, textbox2.text)
I am developing a small software to load an excel file to a website and then create a .kmz file. I have coded up to the file creating point.Now I need some help with the file downloading.The file is something like this "1322559442-10125-61.245.172.28.kmz"And the href value is "/display/1322559442-10125-61.245.172.28.kmz"This is for one file.The next time you upload an excel file to the program you get a different href value.So I want to create a code which can download the first href with the extension
I ran across some legacy code which creates a link to a file on the web server and offers the user a link to download the file.
Machine name: MYSERVER [URL]
Full url path to the directory containing the file to download: [URL]
Target file name: downloadable.txt
The code does the following to create a link to 'downloadable.txt' server.machinename.tostring & ".. argetdownloadable.txt"
Which results in: "MYSERVER.. argetdownloadable.txt"
That link appears on the page as: <a href="MYSERVER.. arget.downloadable.txt">download this file</a>
In IE 7, mousing over the link shows the full URL "[URL]" in the status bar. And it works fine for downloading the file in IE 7 (left or right-click). Firefox shows "[URL]" in the status bar and downloading the file isn't as straight forward. FF actually tries to change the file name to include the server name and target directory in the file name.
I've tried other methods like WebClient.DownloadFile() and had no success. This works, but I'm unfamiliar with the ".." and curious about how it works. I understand that ".." typically means go up one directory. My question was really more in the line of "how does that get interpreted in the browser to sort out the path?"
I'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.
I have WebBrowser1 with a loaded page. When I click on a link in WebBrowser1, (in Internet Explorer it will be a PopUp / New Screen) I want it to display in the same webbrowser (WebBrowser1) or if this isn't possible, in WebBrowser2.
i use a webpage in my form. the webpage has a simple script used to upload a file.so the user selects a file then presses upload.after the file is uploaded the page is refreshed showing the direct link of the uploaded file.Now when this happens i want the program to 'extract' the link and close the bwoser control.
I need to grab every link on a webpage that has the following class:
HTML
<a class="post-title"
Here is what I have but I just cant get the href's
vb Dim HyperLinks As HtmlElementCollection = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a") For Each curElement As HtmlElement In HyperLinks Dim controlName As String = curElement.GetAttribute("class").ToString
how to make a link on a wegpage, that opens my software when i click on it? Steam use the same thing. Instead of http: they use steam:<command>. Is it advanced to make it like MyApp:XXX?
i want make a program like a login tool game..in login tool program..i put a button and WebBrowser page..then i want make a my button and WebBrowser read link or target in ini file or inf file...how to make it?
I'm currently using VS2008 and 2010 for various projects but now I need to test something with VB2005.Anyone know a link where I can get VB or VS2005 Express edition - It's free software but just can't find it on MS's site anymore and all the ones I find elsewhere on the web are full of malware.
I have seen a couple of websites that have a dynamic download link.They ask for a valid email address and send the dynamically created download link to that address.E.X.
Every time I click on download file link, instead of the internet explorer download file dialog to come up, show my second form and in it's textbox place the download link. I have been searching for this for a long time.
I was able to add a file as-link to an project, as you can see in the image:see the difference in the icon for files added as-link and files added as"normal"but now don't remember how to add a file as link, or if this was because some add-in.I've vs2010 installed in both desktop and laptop, the same of a few coworkers, and I like to have several general file (used as links) in different folders as the project folders.
anyway don't sure of as-link or normal are important in an project.the only difference I've noted is that link files can't be edited when in debug.basically I'm thinking in add as-link the files that are shared/used in several projects, as general modules or classes that have functions or subs intended to be as shared.
I can now navigate to pages, fill forms, submit forms, click elements etc.My next big step will be collecting html element ID's which are constantly different each time I navigate to a page.On the webpage I am working on, each page contains 10 of these ID's.
Now I am just looking to click on one of them at random for right now. It doesn't matter which one. Or perhaps the first one to appear on the webpage.Here is the code that I tried first........it works fine for clicking static buttons (without the random id #'s at the end)
Dim ill As HtmlElement = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("ill_btn_") ill.InvokeMember("click") End Sub
I guess what I am looking for here is some sort of partial id tag, to let it know to search for the first ID that begins with ill_btn_ ?
However, I would like to be able to call the *javascript:parent.__doPostBack('Close','')* method from the code-behind file rather than the user clicking the link. I.e., when I have completed my tasks in the application code, call parent.doPostBack as my last function call, which closes the window in question.
When a button is clicked i am creating HTML that will be displayed in the WebBrowser1 control. With this HTML are several links to other pages. Is it possible that when one of these links is clicked, that WebBrowser2 navigates to the page instead of WebBrowser1?
