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[CodenStuff]

Hello,

This snip will show you the simple way of Downloading and Uploading files to/from a website.

First you need to have 2 imports at the top of your code:

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Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO

Then use the following codes to do the corresponding action.

Download a file:

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My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("http://www.WEBSITE.com/NameOfFile.ext", "SaveAs.ext")

Uploading a file:

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My.Computer.Network.UploadFile("FileToUpload.ext", "ftp://www.WEBSITE.com/StoreFileAs.ext", "USERNAME", "PASSWORD", True, 10, FileIO.UICancelOption.DoNothing)

And thats all you need to do. Simple and easy.

Happy Coding.

[Martin]

This Code Works Great Vhite My New Program

[Nery]

I used your snippet to successfully produce a Youtube Video Downloader ^^

Guess what... Both uploading and downloading videos works!

[CodemaN]

thanks man great job

[Martin]

how did you make a youtube video uploder?

martin64

[Nery]

Not uploader, I said DOWNLOADER ^^

Well, since youtube downloads itself the videos for each time you see them you can use the feed you're receiving from youtube to save the file in your desktop instead of making a temporary file in your internet browser's cookies folder.

[Neki]

Great snippet! I like it!

[GoodGuy17]

I don't get this part:
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("http://www.WEBSITE.com/NameOfFile.ext", ">>SaveAs.ext<<")
What should I change SaveAs.ext to? .exe? or what? Give me an example please.

[CodenStuff]

Hello,

Thats the name of the file you want to save it as on your computer. For example if I wanted to download a file from the website called "Application.zip" and I wanted to save it on my computer as "MyApp.zip" I would use the code like this:

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My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("http://www.WEBSITE.com/Application.zip", "MyApp.zip")

So the first part is the URL and name of the file you want to download. The second part is what you want to save the file as when its downloaded.

Hope that helps cooll;

[GoodGuy17]

Thanks,
But the problem NOW is, say my code is this:
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(TextBox1.Text, ">>>MyApp.zip<<<")
How can I make my program figure out what the extension is?
I think I have an IDEA of what to do:
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(TextBox1.Text, TextBox2.Text)
And make the user type what they want to save it as(the name) AND the extension at the end?