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Does anyone know how to download a file (without opening a webpage), and save it to a directory in Visual Basic 6.0?
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If you want to do it with code only (no Internet Transfer Control), VBNet.mvps.org has a really good how-to article that uses the URLDownloadToFile API call.
From the article:
The URLDownloadToFile API is available on all versions of the Windows operating system (except Win3, WinNT3.x). By passing the remote file name and the local file path and name, the API downloads the bits of the specified file saving them as the target name. The function works with all file types - plain text, images, html, mpg, wav and zip files etc. without modification to the routine or concern for the file being downloaded, nor is there any apparent size restriction or limitation.
FYI - in testing on Windows 7, it would only return the cached version, so I had to use the extra function mentioned in the article to clear it first (and that worked).
Then just call the above function with the destination URL first, to clear the cache.
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You don't need API calls, you don't need the Internet Transfer control. Just do it the easy way, using native VB6 code. Here's an excellent article by Karl Peterson with sample code.
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Try this
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I would suggest using the Internet Transfer Control
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You need to use the Internet Transfer control, see http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_get_file_from_web.html for a sample. If you need to specify credentials, check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173264 as well.
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I don't like the Internet Transfer Control because it is synchronous. Once you start a download your application is unresponsive until the file is downloaded or an error is thrown. There are plenty of good examples of using the WININET DLL to write asynchronous methods. It is not trivial, but it is also very do-able. Here is an example from stackoverflow.
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