From the archive http://EmpowermentZone.com/url2file.zip Based on recent discussion, I thought this sample program may be of interest. It downloads a user-specified file from the Internet, via HTTP, FTP, or another common protocol. It is built with the C# and Visual Basic command-line compilers, which are part of the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK. There are source code and batch files for compiling the program with either language. The program, url2file.exe, is a console-mode executable that takes two parameters, specifying an Internet URL to download and the resulting file on disk. Enclose the file path in quotes if it contains a space character. Differences between the C# and VB versions are mostly syntax except for a couple of points. The VB version uses the My namespace, which contains a shared method to download a file. That namespace is not available to C#, so it instantiates a Network object before calling the method. The C# batch file also has to reference the Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll assembly containing this functionality, whereas VB references it by default. I am also pasting the source code of both versions in this email message below. Jamal [Start of url2file.cs] using Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices; using System; using System.IO; class Program { static void Main(string[] aArgs) { if (aArgs.Length < 2) { Console.WriteLine("Syntax:\nurl2file.exe UrlPath FilePath"); return; } Console.WriteLine("Downloading"); string sUrl = aArgs[0]; string sFile = aArgs[1]; if (File.Exists(sFile)) File.Delete(sFile); Network net = new Network(); net.DownloadFile(sUrl, sFile); if (File.Exists(sFile)) Console.WriteLine("Done!"); else Console.WriteLine("Error!"); } } [End of url2file.cs] [Start of url2file.vb] Imports System Imports System.IO Class Program Shared Sub Main(aArgs As String()) If (aArgs.Length < 2) Then Console.WriteLine("Syntax:" + vbLf + "Url2file.exe UrlPath FilePath") Return End If Console.WriteLine("Downloading") Dim sUrl As String = aArgs(0) Dim sFile As String = aArgs(1) If File.Exists(sFile) Then File.Delete(sFile) My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(sUrl, sFile) If File.Exists(sFile) Then Console.WriteLine("Done!") Else Console.WriteLine("Error!") End If End Sub End Class [End of url2file.vb] __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind