I have been researching in to using Background Intelligent Transfer Service. Most articles I have seen says there is no official .NET port but they recommend using sharpBITS. I will use sharpBITS if I have to but I noticed that all of the articles are referencing .NET 1.1 and 2.0, they seem to have been written before 3.0 came out. Was BITS added to 3.0, 3.5, or expected to be in 4.0? I have tried to Google around but BITS is too common of a word in the programming world.
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No, there's no built-in class. There is a wrapper (Sample) that MS published:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=93540887-A6D1-405C-8B3C-45DB02E6A8D4&displaylang=en&displaylang=env
Cheeso
2010-02-19 21:16:24
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No, .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 do not expose a managed interface to the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).
BITS is a very Microsoft-specific technology, and it is highly unlikely they will integrate it into the base class libraries (BCL).
That being said, sharpBITS is probably your best bet, I wouldn't expect it to be in the BCL ever, but I could see it being a separate library that MS exposes under the Microsoft namespace (as they do with products like, Sharepoint and SQL Server Management).
casperOne
2010-02-19 21:17:14