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   Home » C# Language » listing files of a directory from ftp server..
       
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ila
posted 37 posts
since Jan 26, 2010 
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 listing files of a directory from ftp server..
  Posted on: 02 Feb 2010       
public class FileDownloader
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string ftpServer = "ftp://ftp.******.com";
            string userName = "*****";
            string password = "******";
            string destionationLocation = @"D:\project\ss";           
            FileDownloader fDownloader = new FileDownloader();           
            List<string> collectionOfFiles = fDownloader.getFileList(ftpServer, userName, password);
            if (collectionOfFiles != null)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("if statement");
                Console.WriteLine(collectionOfFiles);
                foreach (string fileName in collectionOfFiles)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("for statment");                   
                    string fullPathDestionation = Path.Combine(destionationLocation, Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(fileName) + ".*");                   
                    fDownloader.downloadFile(ftpServer, fileName, userName, password, fullPathDestionation);
                }
                Console.WriteLine("if statement closed");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("function is not called");
            }
            Console.WriteLine("downloaded successfully");
        }       
        public List<string> getFileList(string FTPAddress, string username, string password)
        {
            List<string> files = new List<string>();
            Console.WriteLine("getting filelist");
            try
            {
                //Create FTP request
                FtpWebRequest request = FtpWebRequest.Create(FTPAddress) as FtpWebRequest;

                request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;
                request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
                request.UsePassive = true;
                request.UseBinary = true;
                request.KeepAlive = false;

                FtpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as FtpWebResponse;
                using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
                {
                    using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream))
                    {
                        while (!reader.EndOfStream)
                        {
                            files.Add(reader.ReadLine());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                // write to log
            }
            Console.WriteLine("fileslist got");
            return files;           
        }

        public void downloadFile(string FTPAddress, string filename, string username, string password, string destFile)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Downloading files");
            try
            {               
                FtpWebRequest request = FtpWebRequest.Create(FTPAddress + filename) as FtpWebRequest;
                request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
                request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
                request.UsePassive = true;
                request.UseBinary = false;
                request.KeepAlive = false; //close the connection when done
                //Streams
                FtpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as FtpWebResponse;
                Stream reader = response.GetResponseStream();

                byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
                using (Stream streamFile = File.Create(destFile))
                {
                    while (true)
                    {
                        int bytesRead = reader.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                        if (bytesRead == 0)
                        {
                            break;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            streamFile.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                // write to log
            }
            Console.WriteLine("downloaded");
        }
I tried the above code to list the files of directory from ftp server and then download them in c#.. but the following code does not execute.. i dont know why.. can anybody help for me?

foreach (string fileName in collectionOfFiles)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("for statment");                   
                    string fullPathDestionation = Path.Combine(destionationLocation, Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(fileName) + ".*");                   
                    fDownloader.downloadFile(ftpServer, fileName, userName, password, fullPathDestionation);
                }
Sam Hobbs
posted  1755 posts
since  Sep 07, 2009 
from 

Re: listing files of a directory from ftp server..
  Posted on: 02 Feb 2010   Accepted Answer   0 0    

Look at the bottom of your code, just above the line that says "Console.WriteLine("downloaded");". I see a catch block that only has a comment that says "write to log". Is that how it is in your code? If so, then you are ignoring errors.  Put a Console.WriteLine in the catch block and show the error message. You say that the code does not execute, but probably it executes and gets an error and your program ignores the error.
 
       
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