Uploading/Download files on a server

[musefan]

Hello all, Im looking for some opinions and/or suggestions on the best way to handle file uploading and downloading to/from a server with my application. At the moment I have implemented an FTP solution to allow files to be transfered to and from the server, this seems to be working fine but I am not sure if i have chosen the best option for the task (in terms of performance and reliability). I know it is possible to store files in an SQL database (which I am currently using for data storage), but avoided this approach as I didnt want to pack my database with file storage. Can anybody offer an opinion on a 'best practice' route for this kind of functionality? or perhaps offer another alternative I could look into? Im not completely against SQL storage if anyone can put a good argument forward for it? After all I just want wants best for my offsprings :-D Thanks

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[Samuel Cherinet]

have you tried remoting? that would really help you to write codes to upload and down load files using a file system not the SQL server

[musefan]

Thanks for your reply Have been looking at 'C# Remoting' and have a found a few articles with varying approaches to how to acheive a file upload/download system. Though all of them (of the ones i looked at) seem to require a server-side application. Something I was hoping to avoid using. Is this the idea you had in mind? i.e. creating a server app and communicating with that for file transfers Also where you thinking of any perticular method, like using the System.Runtime.Remoting classes, or was your suggestion just for a general remoting solution? Either way thanks for the suggestion, has been interesting to read about, but like I said, I want to avoid creating a server app if possible :-D

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[Samuel Cherinet]

yeah!! you would need a server app to achieve what you are looking for in remoting. it's not at all complicated though, you will have more control over the transer as well among other benifits. I would recommend "Wrox Press-Professional C#" book, Good Luck