Need help connecting to an FTP site in Visual Basic.NET

[Chaotic42]

I'm writing a little program that needs to connect to and FTP site, log in, and perform various commands. I'm having trouble finding anything actually useful online.

I just need the program to:

-Open an FTP connection
-Request a username
-Request a password
-Perform various directory creation and uploads
-Close FTP connection

Looking at it, it looks like I should use System.Net.FtpWebRequest.Create, but this just seems to do nothing. I guess it's connecting, but I can't find any way to start logging in.

Here's the relevant code that I have now. It's two lines, but I can't seem to get any farther than that. I appreciate any help that you all can give. Any code you can point me to or whatever would be great.

 

[clamum]

Text (code is in C# but it can be converted to VB .NET easily)

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[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: clamum
Text (code is in C# but it can be converted to VB .NET easily)

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So VB.NET doesn't come with a straightforward FTP transfer method? That seems... odd.

 

[kingtas]

Google is your friend.

http://www.example-code.com/vbdotnet/ftp.asp

 

[KB]

VB.net 2.0 has builtin support for FTP


http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.ftpwebrequest.aspx

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: kingtas
Google is your friend.

http://www.example-code.com/vbdotnet/ftp.asp

I found that site too. I'd rather not download someone else's framework. I ended up doing it the old fashioned way. I output to a text file and sent that to the "ftp" command.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: KB
VB.net 2.0 has builtin support for FTP


http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.ftpwebrequest.aspx

I just have VB 2005 Express Edition.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: KB
VB.net 2.0 has builtin support for FTP


http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.ftpwebrequest.aspx

Ah, okay, I fugured out what I was doing wrong here. Sorry, I only know enough VB to get done what I need to at work. Anyway, your code example was exactly what I needed.

:beer: for you.