Download file using VB

Post by **ayu** » 03 Jun 2006, 10:55

Could anyone give me a code that would download for example a picture from a website... over and over again in VB?

zigo · Post by **zigo** » 03 Jun 2006, 11:02

hey i might have smth usefulll for u but u have to search in the files
http://www.softsland.com/FTP_Client_Eng ... Basic.html

this downlaod this file it has VB source codes try looking init and search for what u need in it personaly i dontuse a lot VB but i will look into it and try to fidn a more acurate answer .

zigo · Post by **zigo** » 03 Jun 2006, 11:06

Could anyone give me a code that would download for example a picture from a website... over and over again in VB?

hehe after readign twice ur post nwo i understand u want this hehe well actualy the link i posted u wotn help u to do this but actualy a bat script will do it hehe but what are u doing ihope it's for educational perpuse . i have to admit it's a good idea lol .

zigo · Post by **zigo** » 03 Jun 2006, 11:10

well since u want it in VB here it is lol
http://tinyurl.com/p5sxk [i suggest using tinyurl.com for long urls]

look in this link u will find it u may need to tweak a bit but i dont think so .

i suggest u to use A Complete Multi Downloader (using multithreads) it's th third one . Have fun ihope it washelpfull and dont mess around with it u may get cought lol .

zigo · Post by **zigo** » 03 Jun 2006, 19:42

ok im making like a temp fiel cleaner and disk cheker and ... in bat so now what i want is that it starts directly with windows but as u know i wont use it only for me im not selfish haha

lol i will share it with everyone so what parameters shuld be used in that case . if u think that VB is easier ill go with VB .

damn i need VB tutorials i want to add my Baatch file in visual basic but i dunno how .

H4evr · Post by **H4evr** » 04 Jun 2006, 08:36

neo130 wrote:Could anyone give me a code that would download for example a picture from a website... over and over again in VB?

You can use this API function:

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Declare Function URLDownloadToFile Lib "urlmon" Alias "URLDownloadToFileA" (ByVal pCaller As Long, ByVal szURL As String, ByVal szFileName As String, ByVal dwReserved As Long, ByVal lpfnCB As Long) As Long