I'm a newbie in ASP.NET projects and I am wondering how do I share my finished C# project to someone by email so they can run it (IIS Express) on their machine ? It's for a job offer skill test.
Do I need to send every files and folders or i can just send the source code?
The project folder is 6MB so i can't send it by email.
Sorry for my English and thanks for help !
A nice way to send it could be by uploading it to GitHub and sharing the repository link. Since it is for a job it will also showcase that you are Version Control savvy.
You can also include a README.md file there that describes the app.
I'm not sure this has anything to do with ASP.net. It's just a question on how to transfer a large file isn't it? If so, 6mb isn't really that large for email nowadays. Most mail servers will handle that fine. But if email is a problem, put it on one of the myriad of fileshare platforms available such as Dropbox.
As for what specific files you need to send. That would depend on the requirements the company gave you - but I'd imagine they certainly need to see your source code and likely want the entire thing to be runnable. So send whatever is needed so they can easily run it.
Have you tried zipping it up? Source code will generally zip very effectively to a much smaller file as it contains so much repetition.
Upload the zip file to your google drive and then send it as a drive attachment. (This is actually Google’s recommendation) Or just simply share it with them. I recommend that attachment be as small as possible in the event that the user your sending it to has a mail quota.
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Our current software updates are hosted on our server.
We'd like to offer Torrents as an alternative download option from our server. When new releases are published it should offer people better download speeds if people seed it.
I've figured out everything except how to create a Torrent file automatically (we'd rather not have to create it manually each time).
Does anyone know how we can create a torrent file from a specified exe file?
Thanks!
MonoTorrent seems like it might be of help. I've previously compiled and run it under .net, so no worries there.
This looks like the relevant wiki page.
As usual, it's probably best to check license compatibility before integrating with your product, but it looks quite permissive.
Of course, you'll need to host the torrent to ensure at least a single seed!
I have recently been assigned a task which sounded relatively simple!
Upon attempting it became clear it wasn't as straight forward as i first imagined!!!
I am trying to download multiple files to one location on the users machine. They select these files from lists within a custom share-point web part. Thats the bit i have managed to get working! The downloading is done via WebClient (System.Net.WebClient)
I now want to allow the user to select a location on their local machine to download the files to.
I thought i would be able to use but after attempting this i realized i can only pick files :( in order to get the desired location which will confuse the user
I want something similar to the above but i only need it to return a path location like c:\Temp or any other location the user prefers on their local machine.
Could anyone suggest a control that could provide this functionality. It can also be a share-point control.
In the meantime I will be attempting Tree view as i have never used these before and these may have the power to do this from what i have read
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Unfortunately, you can't do this without some kind of active content, like a Flash control or spit activeX /spit.
It seems strange at first, but you have to consider that this kind of functionality would let a site discover the structure of anyones storage devices; this is not 'a good thing'™
However, perhaps a different approach might solve the problem?
Why are you using WebClient, can't you provide the link to the client and let them choose their own download folder ?
I ended up zipping the files in to one folder and passed the file to be downloaded through the browser! Thanks for your comments!
I have realised that by using the Amazon S3 service directly, I can save myself a lot of money. Instead of buying a client like GoodSync or Jungle Disk I thought it would be interesting to create my own Windows syncing application, which would sync my files to S3.
I have discovered that I can use FileSystemWatcher to monitor for changes to files and directories, but I am looking for the theory behind how other services like Dropbox index their files. Things like comparing the file size of a file with the size recorded in an index somewhere on the client PC, then using this information to determine whether to sync or not.
I am using C# and references to different libraries or code samples I could use would be helpful, but I am mainly looking for the best way to index files and for someone to point me in the right direction.
Thanks
I've went down this path myself. In fact, now that Mozy dropped their unlimited plan and Carbonite chooses to NOT backup certain files...like 3GP files and *.dat files unless you routinely go in and manually add them, I am very disgruntled with online backups.
But your question was on syncing. Dropbox does it the best. But it's expensive. But I'm not sure S3 would be any cheaper.
Anyway, you will have a lot of hurdles. In my experiences, the problems I ran into are:
1) Propagating deletes
2) FileSystemWatcher simply missing events such as rapidly adding files to a folder then deleting them
3) etc..
Now some ideas on how I would tackle this again:
1) Keep a small SQLite db for files names/path locally
2) Copy files to a tmp directory before sending to S3.
3) On file changes/updates/deletions/etc store that meta information in SQLite
Anyway just some ideas.
Hi I'm creating online shop. In this shope people online must be buy files with zip extension. They pay with their credit cards or other methods get key and download product. How can I know when they finish product download?
Thanks
Unfortunatelly there is no really good way to do this as some clients might not download the file at once (e.g. Downloadmanagers split the download into several parralel part downloads).
Options are:
If it is very important to you that it can only be downloaded once: You could
simply not support resuming. Then you
can log if the file has entirely been
downloaded (as soon as the last byte
has been sent). This might work well if the download is small.
Otherwise you could offer some grace
data (we usually allow to download
clients to download 5 times the size
of the real download) and log every
download attempt.
You should NOT just count the bytes downloaded (because the download might be disrupted). And NOT just determine if all sections have been downloaded once (also because the download might be disrupted)
Just to clarify: All this means that you have to write your own download handler (fileserver).
you can use custom file server that works on either http or ftp and have it send a notification once the client received the last file fragment.
all other options are problematic; the client might download the file using a download manager,so you cannot even register for any browser event, if there was any.
A custom server application seems indeed a solution for this,
or possibly some kind of scripting.
A normal http server does not notify the end of a connection,
but possibly, if you generate the output in a cgi/php/asp/* script,
you read the file in cgi/php/asp/* scripting language and
send it to the output. when you reach the end of the file, you
do the notification, and then end the script.
When you do it that way, it will only detect fully downloaded files,
and if the connection gets interrupted half-way, it would not mark
the file as downloaded.
a 'cgi-script' can be a compiled c program, (or any other langauge
for that matter). Compiled code anyways. A compiled program
would give better performance then a interpreted script solution.
I currently have a manual process where we upload a text file to a business partner, they have an automated process which reads in the file, processes it and then generates a 'results' log file any where from 3-10minutes (typically) after the initial upload. I need to automate this process via a .NET application.
I already have the upload completed, what I do not have is the download of the result. Since I dont know exactly when the file will be ready to download I figure that I must need to poll the remote site every so often, get a listing of the files in the results directory and see if one matches what I am expecting.
I have done some reading and found some references to AsyncCallBack but I'm not really sure how to proceed with it. the solution has to be something I can manage without any third-party libraries outside of .net since I have a budget of 0 for this little project.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Just have a thread (or your main thread) sleep for x milliseconds and attempt to do the download when it's not sleeping. No need to buy a 3rd party FTP library, FTP is built into .NET (FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse). They aren't very good (very bare bones) but will probably do for what you want.