URL File Downloader Project - Download Files, including HTML, Asynchronously
Scott Dorman - URL File Downloader for .NET Updates
"It's been a while since I wrote the first version of my FileDownloader article and class. Since that time, there have been a lot of positive comments about the article and a handful of feature requests. I finally made the time to update the classes and the article and resubmit it to The Code Project. This update has the following new methods and properties:
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- DownloadHtml
- Gets or sets a value indicating if HTML pages should be allowed to be downloaded.
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- DownloadAsync
- Begin downloading the file at the specified URL, and save it to the current folder.
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The Code Project - An easy-to-use URL file downloader class for .NET
"For one of my projects at work, I needed the ability to download a file from a given URL. Unfortunately, the methods provided by the
WebClient
class don't do anything more than download the data. I needed something that gave the ability to provide progress feedback and that was resumable.As I started my searches on the web for any existing code, I came across two articles on CodeProject that helped get me very close to what I needed. The first article was by John Batte, while the second article by Phil Crosby was a derivation of his work. Using both of these articles as a starting point, I was able to make another derivation that accomplished my goals.
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This is a cool project that I am looking at using in my Blogger Backup utility... Both for the image backup feature and the "As it looks like on the blog" HTML backup option.
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