C# download file from url inside of textbox

Also add a saveFileDialog control from Toolbox, then add following code in button's click event. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 12 years ago. Active 10 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 12k times. Nathan Campos Nathan Campos Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. WriteAllText path, string ;. Martinho Fernandes R.

Martinho Fernandes k 68 68 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Thanks for your example and the reading indications, principally because of the indications!

Continue like this! WriteAllText "myfile. Saket Kumar Saket Kumar 3, 3 3 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Does stackoverflow. Also see codereview. WebClient is obsolete sincd and the two snippets are doing different things. You can use HttpClient. GetStreamAsync to get a stream to the file in one line and then use. CopyToAsync to copy the stream's contents to a file stream — Panagiotis Kanavos. The older DownloadFileAsync uses events to notify that a download completed, it's not asynchronous in the sense used nowadays — Panagiotis Kanavos.

Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. MapPath string. Bluebaron Bluebaron 1, 1 1 gold badge 22 22 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. I ended up using this, note HostingEnvironment. GetAsync uri ; be in using statements? It says they inherit IDisposable. See here — Mitchell Wright.

Doesn't the C 8. Add a comment. Here is my approach. ToString ; client. Clear ; client. Add new System. GetAsync uriBuilder. ToString ; if response. Ingale88s Ingale88s 2 2 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Use the httpClient has a static instance instead, lots of articles online covering this problem. The static instance can also cause problems as it is never refreshed. IsNullOrEmpty Settings. SendAsync request. Create, FileAccess. Write, FileShare.

Location of Files. The Files i. Word document, Excel file and PDF file are stored in a folder named Files inside the project directory. HTML Markup. Word document, Excel file and PDF file. You will need to import the following namespaces. Imports System. The WebMethod accepts the name of the File to be downloaded as parameter.

Finally, the Byte Array is converted into Base64 string and returned. ToBase64String bytes, 0, bytes. Length ;. Return Convert. End Function. When any of the three Button is clicked, the DownloadFile JavaScript function is called and the name of the File is passed to it. URL window.

Config Setting. You will need to set the maxJsonLength property through Web.