I've googled around quite a bit for good vb.net ftp controls and there are a few, but 90% of those are highly priced. Can anyone recommend a good (free or super cheap) control for doing ftp/sftp/ftpssl? Preferably one with a good example application with it as I'm new to vb.net :)
A:
This could be a good start, it's indeed C#, but you can connect to it from your application, or at least get the idea and write your methods in VB.
http://www.codeproject.com/info/search.aspx?artkw=+ftp&sbo=kw
Shimmy
2010-07-11 00:48:04
the first example you gave would have been perfect it were in vb.net. I'm a bit too new to try to attempt to convert it into vb though.
Joe
2010-07-11 02:15:18
Even you're new, you can look what classes and properties he uses to learn how to use it, for this purposes, vb and c# are almost the same...
Shimmy
2010-07-11 09:00:44
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A:
Is there a reason why you really need a control? Because it would probably be easiest to just use the FtpWebRequest class, which is already in the .NET Framework. There are some FTP examples on MSDN to help get you started.
Note: this is for FTP only. SFTP is a completely different protocol that is implemented on top of the SSH stack. You also mention "ftpssl" which I'm not familiar with -- as far as I know, the FTP standard doesn't include SSL support, so this must be some kind of proprietary extension? I don't really know how to help you there.
Daniel Pryden
2010-07-11 00:48:54
Thanks for the response. The ftpssl I mentioned was more or less auth/implicit protocols which most ftp editors support. I'm just basically creating an ftp editor for my own use and the majority of sites I connect to are my remote linux servers hence the reason I'd like to see SSH as part of the component to simplify my programming :)
Joe
2010-07-11 01:01:27