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Bonus Levels This article explains how to mak e simple program that will download file every n minutes and save it to specified folder. So you can basically grab web cam pictures.

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Reverse Program will download file every n minutes and save it to specified folder. So you can basically grab web cam pictures and make nice looking time line.
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User's box So what information is needed?

Username: URL of picture
Where pictures are saved
Password:
Time interval

Lets make couple of TextBox and NumericUpDown control for time. Something like Start button and browse folder button is also needed. I dont like user to type paths so we disabled the folder edit box.
Forgot
password? We also needed to timer control and folderBrowserDialog. Some kind of user check input is required. We make simple test to see if there is URL and Folder boxes text. If there are we can enable start button.
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When user fill the form and press start button some kind feedback would be nice. So lets change the text to Stop, and start downloading file. Timer uses milliseconds so we need to convert minutes to milliseconds. When timer is started it waits specified time and then calls the tick routine. This isn't good, pressing start and wait just like local bank. So we call download
Shoutbox routine one time before we start waiting timer event.
MaxMouse
It's Friday... Lets download the file and save it. Save it with what name? Lets use time stamp. After quick search in Google we notice that default time format is 10/12/2002 10:11 PM and there is group of time formats that are near of this. Now this isnt good because we cannot use / and : charters in filenames.
That's good
enough for me! So we need to build date string. Lets use European style date dd.MM.YYYY and put dot in the time format. We dont need seconds here so we can drop them off. After quick test I noticed that filename extension is missing so computer doesnt understand picture files. Picture files can be in several formats and if user wants to download other files than pictures we need to
CodeX know the extension. Lets parse the URL to get the extension we need.
non stop lolz
here but thats After downloading couple of files I noticed that the program actually stops when the file has been downloaded. I used DownloadFile() method for this. So the program actually stops that time when file is downloaded. Wrong method call, asynchronous is magic word. So we need to use DownloadFileAsync() method.
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thanks to uni, using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
surely the rest
using System.ComponentModel;
of the world is
using System.Data;
going good? using System.Drawing;
stabat using System.Text;
how things are using System.Windows.Forms;
going guys? using System.IO;
Here... using System.Net;
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DateTime CurrTime = DateTime.Now;

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