FTPClient Sample

This document contains the release information for the .NET FTPClient sample. You will find the following sections below:

• Sample Overview
• Location of the sample
• Building the sample
• Running the sample

Sample Overview

The purpose of this sample if to show how you can create your own pluggable WebRequest protocol. This sample creates an FTP pluggagle protocol.

Location of the Sample

This sample list located in the FTPClient directory of the .NET SDK sample directories.

For Example:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\Samples\FTPClient

Building the Sample

In order to properly build and run this sample, the following steps need to be performed prior to building and running the sample…

· Type NMAKE /f makefile.ftp all from the command line.

For Example:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\Samples\FTPClient\:>NMAKE /f makefile.ftp all

Running the Sample

In order to run this sample, follow the instructions listed below.

• Type FTPClient /? from the command line.

For Example:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\Samples\FTPClient\:>FTPClient /?

Adding support for custom verbs

In order to add support for custom verbs, do the following:

• In FindCommandType(), add the command to the list in the correct position, i.e: if it is a ControlCommand, add it to the ControlCommandList

For Example:

if( command.Equals("USER")

|| command.Equals("PASS")

|| command.Equals("CWD")

|| command.Equals("PWD")

|| command.Equals("CDUP")

|| command.Equals("QUIT"))

|| command.Equals(“MY_NEW_COMMAND”)

return FtpCommandType.FtpControlCommand;

· In GetServerCommand, add an entry for this command. The input to this function is the client version of the command (eg “DIR”) and the output of this function is the version the server understands (eg “LIST”). You can get a list of commands the server understands by typing “REMOTEHELP” in the FTP client window of any other FTP client.

This function should return the equivalent command unserstood by the server. For eg, if your new command is “delete”, then the server version of that should be “DELE”