How to copy a file from server to client

[Shayer]

Hello

I want to copy a file from server to client machine. How can i do that. I
may have to use byte stream but how can i do that . Pls tell me

THanks

 

[Chris Taylor]

Hi,

The System.IO namespace has a File class, this class has a static method
called Copy. Would this not do the trick for you?

Hope this helps

Chris Taylor

 

[Shayer]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your solution. ut i dont think it will work. Because i have a
server machine . when i start file copying using File.Copy ( ...) it will
copy the file into the server machine. But dont want that. I want to copy
the file to client machine which is running on separate computer.
Hope you may have a solution

Thanks

Shayer

 

[Chris Taylor]

Hi,

To copy a file from a server you can setup a share on a server and do
something like the following

System.IO.File.Copy( @"\\hulk\c\data\test.doc", @"c:\test.doc" );

Where 'hulk' is the machine name, 'c' is the share name, 'data' is a folder
under that share and 'test.doc' is the file to copy.
'c:\test.doc' is the target on the local machine, where the file should be
copied to.

If what you want is to use FTP to transfere a file from the server to the
client, there are a few approaches, but you could take a look at the
following codeproject article as a starting point.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/dotnetftp.asp

Hope this helps

Chris Taylor

 

[Shayer]

Hi Chris,

I have write this piece of code to my sremoting object, that is in ther
server and the file is also in the server;

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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public string fileContent()
{
string
localfilepath="C:\\Subjects\\DOT\\CSharpProjects\\DataAccess\\tutorial2.mdb"
;
StreamReader r = new StreamReader ((System.IO.Stream)
File.OpenRead(localfilepath));
string con=r.ReadToEnd();
r.Close();
return con;
}
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------

And my client also access that remote object and get the string and write to
local file by following method
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------
public void writeFile(string con)
{
string
localfilepath="D:\\Subjects\\DOT\\CSharpProjects\\DataAccess\\tute.mdb";
StreamWriter r = new StreamWriter((System.IO.Stream)
File.OpenWrite(localfilepath));
r.Write(con);
r.Close();
}
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------

But it can copy the file but it becomes corrupted.

Can you pls tell me where am i making mistake .

Thanks

 

[Jon Skeet]

But it can copy the file but it becomes corrupted.

Can you pls tell me where am i making mistake .

Yes - you're reading it as if it's a UTF-8 text file, which I rather
suspect it isn't. You should read and write byte arrays from the
stream, rather than using StreamReader and reading and writing strings.

Out of interest, why are you casting to Stream in the constructor for
StreamReader and StreamWriter? It's unnecessary as far as I can see.