Hey all,

Im currently writing a program thats installed on a USB stick and started automaically when plugged in. Then its supposed to contact a remote sharepoint server and grab all the documents that a particular user has stored in their account. Im not familiar with sharepoint at all, im learning as time passes. what i want to happen is for a the program to contact a webservice on the remote machine and have the webservice mount a webfolder for whatever user is logged in. How can i achieve this in Visual Basic code? Mounting a web folder? Or is there an easier way to access these files other than mounting a web folder, still through VB code?

Thanks in advance.

How far in this story board have you gotten?
Where is your current sticking point?

Thanks for the response BrianWren,

Its a very new project, started about a month and a half ago. Im the only developer working on it. If 'Sticking Point' means where my progress is currently, then i'd have to say somwhere in the land of WebDAV. I think i've figured out by now that it would be best to mount this web folder on the client side so that RSYNC (what im using to sync all the users documents) can perform. I've got three scenarios in my head, two of which involve the web folder option; the other is XML serialization and its probably something i shouldn't worry about right now.

Right now, the program just calls 'cmd.exe /c rsync -av servername::dirname localdest' and syncs a test folder on the sharepoint server with a folder on the USB stick. I've been hunting around for some info on how to harness the WebDAV dll file(i think its MSDAIPP.DLL), is this the right route to take?

Update for all still interested:

I haven't found functionality to mount a web folder programmatically in VB.NET yet, however i have found a work around that works pretty well for now. I found a WebDAV API for VB.NET that enables you to communicate with these folders throught the WebDAV protocol. Its made by Independent Software: www.independentsoft.de called WebDAV .NET. It has enabled me to communicate with pre defined paths and grab all the file info i need like Size, Fullname(the address), file name, date modified, etc. There are lots of useful properties. This has helped me to build my file lists and figure out what files need to be updated. after this i will use the provided download methods to get updated files. Rsync has been ruled out for now.

Hope this info helps anyone, its new to me!