File Copy

basanth alluri

Hello, I want to do a small program (C#) that allows me to copy some files from one computer to another.(the computers are in the same local network). How can I do this? can you give me an example? some classes that do that? thanks

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Lalit M17y ago

You can also try this code sample

 public void ftpfile(string ftpfilepath, string inputfilepath)   
{   
    string ftphost = "127.0.0.1";   
    //here correct hostname or IP of the ftp server to be given   
  
    string ftpfullpath = "ftp://" + ftphost + ftpfilepath;   
    FtpWebRequest ftp = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(ftpfullpath);   
    ftp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("userid", "password");   
    //userid and password for the ftp server to given   
  
    ftp.KeepAlive = true;   
    ftp.UseBinary = true;   
    ftp.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;   
    FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(inputfilepath);   
    byte[] buffer = new byte[fs.Length];   
    fs.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);   
    fs.Close();   
    Stream ftpstream = ftp.GetRequestStream();   
    ftpstream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);   
    ftpstream.Close();   
}

Lalit M17y ago
You can use the Copy() method of the File object which is in the System.IO namespace.

You could map a drive to the remote computer then use:

File.Copy(@"c:\myfile.txt",@"driveletter:\myfile.txt");

replacing driveletter with the letter you assigned when mapping the drive.

or you can use UNC paths:

File.Copy(@"c:\myfile.txt",@"\\machinename\c$\myfile.txt");

this would copy myfile.txt from your local C:\ drive to the remote machines C:\ drive, this would require admin permissions as it uses the C$ admin share on the remote machine.