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Developing a Multi-threaded Downloader
Introduction
Developing multithreaded applications was always been a difficult task for average programmers. .NET allows creating such applications easily. In this code demo we will how to develop an application that downloads multiple files from web simultaneously.
What you will learn?
This demo illustrates following techniques:
- How to use multithreading in .NET
- How to use HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse classes to download a file over HTTP
- How to write the data received to a file
- How to use windows ListView control
- How to refresh the ListView to reflect progress of the download
- How to notify the client of completion using events
How to test and run the code
Following steps will help you to test and run the code:
- Create a Windows Forms application in C# using VS.NET
- Unzip supplied source code files in the application folder
- Add the files in the VS.NET project
- Compile the project
- Run the project
- Enter some URLs to download file from
Bipin Joshi is an independent software consultant, trainer, author, yoga mentor, and meditation teacher. He has been programming, meditating, and teaching for 24+ years. He conducts instructor-led
online training courses in ASP.NET family of technologies for individuals and small groups. He is a published author and has authored or co-authored books for Apress and Wrox press. Having embraced the Yoga way of life he also teaches
Ajapa Yoga to interested individuals. To know more about him click
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