C (programming language) C is an imperative procedural language. It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support.
Is it possible to download a file from a website in Windows Application form and put it into a certain directory?
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You may need to know the status during the file download or use credentials before making the request.
Here is an example that covers these options:
And the callback's functions implemented as follows:
(Ver 2) - Lambda notation: other possible option for handling the events
(Ver 3) - We can do better

C# Download File From Web Url
(Ver 4) - Or
Sure, you just use a HttpWebRequest
.
Once you have the HttpWebRequest
set up, you can save the response stream to a file StreamWriter
(Either BinaryWriter
, or a TextWriter
depending on the mimetype.) and you have a file on your hard drive.
C# Download Pdf File From Web
EDIT: Forgot about WebClient
. That works good unless as long as you only need to use GET
to retrieve your file. If the site requires you to POST
information to it, you'll have to use a HttpWebRequest
, so I'm leaving my answer up.
You can use this code to Download file from a WebSite to Desktop:
Try this example:
The implementation is done in the follows:

Source: http://www.systemdeveloper.info/2014/03/force-downloading-file-from-c.html
C# Download File From Web

Also you can use DownloadFileAsync
method in WebClient
class. It downloads to a local file the resource with the specified URI
. Also this method does not block the calling thread.
Sample:
For more information:
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C is a computer programming language. That means that you can use C to create lists of instructions for a computer to follow. C is one of thousands of programming languages currently in use. C has been around for several decades and has won widespread acceptance because it gives programmers maximum control and efficiency. C is an easy language to learn. It is a bit more cryptic in its style than some other languages, but you get beyond that fairly quickly.
C is what is called a compiled language. This means that once you write your C program, you must run it through a C compiler to turn your program into an executable that the computer can run (execute). The C program is the human-readable form, while the executable that comes out of the compiler is the machine-readable and executable form. What this means is that to write and run a C program, you must have access to a C compiler. If you are using a UNIX machine (for example, if you are writing CGI scripts in C on your host's UNIX computer, or if you are a student working on a lab's UNIX machine), the C compiler is available for free. It is called either 'cc' or 'gcc' and is available on the command line. If you are a student, then the school will likely provide you with a compiler -- find out what the school is using and learn about it. If you are working at home on a Windows machine, you are going to need to download a free C compiler or purchase a commercial compiler. A widely used commercial compiler is Microsoft's Visual C++ environment (it compiles both C and C++ programs). Unfortunately, this program costs several hundred dollars. If you do not have hundreds of dollars to spend on a commercial compiler, then you can use one of the free compilers available on the Web. See http://delorie.com/djgpp/ as a starting point in your search.
We will start at the beginning with an extremely simple C program and build up from there. I will assume that you are using the UNIX command line and gcc as your environment for these examples; if you are not, all of the code will still work fine -- you will simply need to understand and use whatever compiler you have available.
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