I have actually the following code:
private Stopwatch _sw;
public void DownloadFile(string url, string fileName)
{
string path = @"C:\DL\";
Thread bgThread = new Thread(() =>
{
_sw = new Stopwatch();
_sw.Start();
labelDownloadAudioStatusText.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient())
{
webClient.DownloadFileCompleted +=
new AsyncCompletedEventHandler(DownloadCompleted);
webClient.DownloadProgressChanged +=
new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(DownloadStatusChanged);
webClient.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri(url), path + fileName);
}
});
bgThread.Start();
}
void DownloadStatusChanged(object sender, DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
this.BeginInvoke((MethodInvoker) delegate
{
int percent = 0;
if (e.ProgressPercentage != percent)
{
percent = e.ProgressPercentage;
progressBarDownloadAudio.Value = percent;
labelDownloadAudioProgress.Content = percent + "%";
labelDownloadAudioDlRate.Content =
(Convert.ToDouble(e.BytesReceived)/1024/
_sw.Elapsed.TotalSeconds).ToString("0.00") + " kb/s";
Thread.Sleep(50);
}
});
}
private void DownloadCompleted(object sender, AsyncCompletedEventArgs e)
{
this.BeginInvoke((MethodInvoker) delegate
{
labelDownloadAudioDlRate.Content = "0 kb/s";
labelDownloadAudioStatusText.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
});
}
My problem is that in a previous version without the outer thread, the whole GUI freezes sporadically and the GUI is liquid when the download is finished. So I googled around and found this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9459441/2288470
An answer was to pack everything into a separate thread which performs the interaction with DownloadFileAsync
, but I got the fault, that the BeginInvoke
method can not be found.