Hi,

I wish to automate the process of moving XML files from the Windows addplication out to the web so they can be read by my web application.

How can this be done (without having to manually do it by FTP)

Thanks


Kerry O'Carroll

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Kerry O\'Carroll

Kerry,

Please explain more about what you're trying to do. You can import files from the file system, but that takes action from the user. You can upload web docs to a db and have your web app read them. You can have a windows service that polls the file system on a daily basis to see if new files have been created and then posts these files to a web service. You can definitely move files around without FTP. Are the XML files located on a different machine than the web server? You will not only have to automate the move process, but you will need to make sure that your web application has permission to access the directory where the files are located.

So please give more information, and then readers can give you more specific answers.

Hi Robin,

Thanks for your help.

I have XML files created on a desktop computer by a user in an office running an application written in VB .NET. I want this user to be able to press a button, then the application will copy these XML files out to a remote web server.

This is how it is done at the moment from a DOS prompt:

FTP <ip address>
user name: xxxxxx
password: xxxxx

then once in the remote directory

put file1.xml
put file2.xml
put file3.xml

bye

Thanks for your help



Kerry O'Carroll

Hi,

I forgot to mention, even though it is easy to use FTP, I don't want the user to have to enter all those commands. I don't mind if they have to enter user ID and password, but nothing else.

Thanks

Kerry O'Carroll

Any ideas!!

Kerry O'Carroll

How about a little VBS script that is scheduled in Windows's Scheduled Tasks? VBS files can be written in VBScript, and look a lot like ASP pages. Inside the script you can execute the FTP commands through "DOS", or use a FTP component.

You can also embed a script inside a SQL Server DTS Package. The script basically comes down to the same thing, though.

Cheers,

Imar
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Hi Imar,

Thanks for your help.

Can all this run from a VB .Net Windows application??

I need to come to terms with all these ideas. I am new to VB .Net and don't know VB Script (yet!!) Can you point me in the right direction of where to start. As mention earlier, all I want to do is FTP three files out to the webserver.

Cheers


Kerry O'Carroll

It's an either / or solution. Either you use a VBS file with VBScript, or you use a VB.NET application (or something else entirely).

When you search Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...+component+FTP) you'll find a bunch of FTP components some of which are free. Some are for classic ASP, others are for .NET. Even the classic ones can be used in .NET through Com Interop (sounds scary, but basically it comes down to browsing to a DLL file from within VS.NET)

Either way, I think you need to do some Googling and, consequently, some reading. I don't have any ready-made FTP code for .NET available, but there are plenty of tutorials available on the net.

Cheers,

Imar
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Thanks Imar, I will do some searching. It seems a bit more complicated than what I thought. I have done things similiar years ago using DOS .bat files getting data files from one machine to another using FTP running automatically.

I will start searching google.

Cheers


Kerry O'Carroll

You can still do that too, I think.

Write a simple batch file with the code you proposed earlier, and then run the file with something like

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("YourFile.bat")

I think that should work too

Imar



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