I would like to create a .net web service for downloading and uploading a excel or text file.

How to do that? Is there any sample code / article available?

Thanks

Thanks and regards
Siva

What do you mean? Do you want a user to upload/download the file?

Yes, you are right. Using the Web Service, the user should be able to upload and download file. How to do that?

Thanks and regards
Siva

You don't. That's not what web services are for. Web services are designed for the purposes of providing data over HTTP using XML. This data is used, or "consumed" by other applications. Web services are designed as a end use interface. You need to create a web form to do this. Try this google search for help on how to upload files using ASPX web forms.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

No.It's very easy to upload or download any document with web services. Here is a sample example :

This is for web services :


<WebMethod()> PublicFunction UploadFile(ByVal fs()As Byte,ByVal FlName As String)As String
  Try
      Dim m As New MemoryStream(fs)
      Dim f As New FileStream("c:\tempUploaded\" & FlName, FileMode.Create)
      m.WriteTo(f)
      m.Close()
      f.Close()
      f = Nothing
      m = Nothing
      Return "File Uploaded"

  Catch ex As Exception
    Return ex.Message
  End Try
End Function

Note: You must import System.IO
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This is for your asp.net file (or win app)

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
  Try
    Dim f As System.IO.File
    Dim fs As System.IO.FileStream
    Dim o As New localhost.Service1()
    'file to upload
    fs = f.Open("c:\upload.pdf", IO.FileMode.Open, IO.FileAccess.Read)
    Dim b(fs.Length - 1) As Byte
    fs.Read(b, 0, fs.Length)
    MsgBox(o.UploadFile(b, "upload.pdf"))
    f = Nothing
    fs.Close()
  Catch ex As Exception
    MsgBox(ex.Message)
  End Try
End Sub

okantekeli,

Right, so you have confirmed my point. The web service doesn't provide the capability to upload/download the file. You must create a user interface (ASP.net or winforms application) that provides the capability to deal with the user's local file(s) and then could use the web service to take the file as a byte stream and do whatever it needs with it. In the case of an ASP.net web application, you actually need to upload/download the file in the context of an HTTP connection (between the server and the browser). In the case of a winforms application, you are dealing with the file locally and thus you aren't actually doing any upload/download per se. What you do with the application internally is irrelevant. In the case of your example, you have a web service that handles a byte stream and dumps it to a file and you have a winform app that handles a file locally and uses the web service. The point remains that the web service itself is not providing the "upload/download" capability.

This discussion is really a matter of semantics. The real question that should be posed is: What is the ultimate goal regarding the original post? Is the desired result a web interface to upload/download a file? If so, then okantekeli's suggestion can be implemented as described. The web interface is doing the uploading and downloading, it just happens to use a web service instead of a local file IO.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

This works great on my local machine; how can you use another web server with this. I'm using a VB.NET app to send the file and can't figure out how to specify another web server other than local.

Thanks!