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Downloads the specified resource to a local file as an asynchronous operation and returns a task object. These methods do not block the calling thread.

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Calculate download rate in ProgressChanged

So essentially i have a form that downloads a file, called file.jpg that rotates every hour or so for example, and i have a button that starts the download where it randomly downloads it an arbitrary amount of time (mainly this is a self learning…
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vb.net winforms download without blocking

I'm downloading files .mp3 and my goal is not to have even a minimum GUI freezing during downloading. My aim is also to display the bites received in a progress bar and through labels. This code is working, but sometimes is freezing without any…
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Powershell file download issue

I'm trying to download the PuTTY executable using PowerShell, but could not get the file on temp path. My script: $Url = "https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe" $Path = "C:%homepath%\AppData\Local\Temp\putty.exe" $Wc = New-Object…
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Wait for page load before downloading with WebClient

I have several URLs stored in a text file, each of them is a link leading to a Facebook emoji, like https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v5/u75/1/16/1f618.png I'm trying to download these images and store them on my disk. I'm using WebClient…
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Download Multiple file, one by one using DownloadFileAsync in C#

How can I download multiple files, one by one. Using my code. //Download File public void DownloadFile(string url, string folderfile) { WebClient wc = new WebClient(); try { …
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How can I make this image crawler more efficient?

I am making a simple application that have to fetch all images in subdirectories from a site and recreate the file and folder structure locally. Here is what i have so far: string folder = "c:\someLocalFolder\"; // To keep track of how many files…
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Download an instagram image in android

I want do download an image of intagram by know the url of that, like: https://www.instagram.com/p/BAKQchetc but when I use tihs URL it gives me to the instagram page, and I want to see only the image, what can I do? (I'm using…
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How to download an .exe file successfully in C#?

I am trying to download a test.exe file with this code: public void DownloadFile() { using(var client = new WebClient()) { client.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri("http://www.acromix.net16.net/download/test.exe"), "test.exe"); …
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WebClient async download failing over a proxy?

First I should clarify that my Proxy is set. The address and any necessary credentials are already successfully used in a login process to a web service. When downloading over a proxy, it is occasionally successful (~25% of the time), but most of…
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Catch Timeout in DownloadFileAsync

I am having a problem with timeouts in my DownloadFileAsync function. I am using VB.NET. According to multiple sources the "DownloadFileCompleted" event should be raised when the connection to the server while downloading is lost and the error flag…
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Cannot download file with DownloadFileAsync vb.net

I have a url like : Dim processingUrl as String = "http://myIP//myPage.aspx?ID=123321123&ReportType=999" I cannot use DownloadFileAsync to download my processingUrl. I guess it must be specific like: http://somesite.com/file.zip So how can I…
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WebClient.DownloadProgressChanged: Console.WriteLine() is blocking UI thread

I have the following simple code: private void btn_download_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){ WebClient client = new WebClient(); client.DownloadProgressChanged += client_DownloadProgressChanged; client.DownloadFileAsync(new…
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Webclient downloadfileasync not working

I got a WPF application and I want to download a file. I'm using System.Net; and I have the following code: WebClient ww = new WebClient(); ww.DownloadFileAsync( new Uri("http://www.sinvise.net/tester/1.jpg"), …
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DownloadDataAsync and DownloadFile Async not working

When I use DownloadDataAsync with DownloadDataCompleted, the progress bar works, it says "SUCCESS" but I couldn't find any file! Why? When I use DownloadFileAsync with DownloadFileCompleted, it fails to download from the start. What am I doing…
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WebClient.DownloadFileAsync gets incomplete content

I'm using WebClient.DownloadFileAsync to obtain a batch of files. However some files turn out to be incomplete, and there is no exception. My question is, how to flag when a downloaded file is not complete? There is no md5 checksum to verify. Code…
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