Hi,

I am new to visual studio 2005. My assignment is to provide URL as a input(via GUI) and parse the given url and download the material from tht URL and if it contains pdf, doc and images, then my application will download the pdf and will save into the PDF folder on my machine and simmilarly other data also in relevant folder.

Please guide me , how should I start this assignment ..

Shall I use web browsing control in my application  and what control should perform downloading task..please let me know....

Thanks,

Anoushka

can you please explain bit clear what you want to do....

You'll have to use the WebClient class residing inside the System.Net namespace. Please explore it in further details, you can create an instance of the WebClient class

WebClient client = new WebClient();

and then it has got methods like

client.DownloadData(url);  to get the HTML source of the webpage

or

client.DownloadFile(url,fileName); to save the file physically on your local drive.

Before calling the DownloadFile method first check the extension of the URL like, like if it ends with .pdf then in the fileName variable pass in the path to the folder where you want to save PDF files.

Hope it helps.

 Hi anushka

Try to follow these links

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/DownloadAssistant.aspx

http://forums.asp.net/p/1189823/2040434.aspx

http://forums.asp.net/p/942782/1131139.aspx#1131139

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/textfile.aspx