#HOW DO I USE FTP ON VISTA HOW TO#
#HOW DO I USE FTP ON VISTA INSTALL#
#HOW DO I USE FTP ON VISTA CODE#
#HOW DO I USE FTP ON VISTA PROFESSIONAL#

If you plan on converting it(which can be a real pain in arse, depending on how it is set up) then you need to be aware of a few differences: The reason behind this stems from the the way you convert to a web application project. You will not see the ' convert to web application' option unless you are in a Web Application project. John is right, the only difference is one of your projects is a Web Site Project and the other is a Web Application project. It's got to be a setting somewhere, right? Does anyone know?

And I doubt the OS difference is causing this functionality change.

#HOW DO I USE FTP ON VISTA PROFESSIONAL#

I'd like to have these options for every project.īoth computers are running Visual Studio 2008 Professional (version 9.1 SP, according to Help->About). Notice the radio buttons in the second screenshot that allow me to choose to either delete the contents of the folder prior to publishing, or merely to overwrite matching files. Here's what the publish function looks like for one ASP.NET project on my Win XP desktop:Īnd here's what it looks like for a different project on my Vista laptop: I still haven't figured this out, but here's some more information. Is this a setting somewhere I can change? Is it tied to the version of. However, I'm not sure why Visual Studio doesn't always give me this option. I much prefer to publish without completely obliterating the folder, because the deployed application creates user files and cache files as it's been used that I don't want to take extra steps to preserve. On occasion, however, when publishing a project in Visual Studio, I would get a dialog box that would give me the choice of replacing the folder's contents completely, or simply replacing changed files with newer version. Continue?' (or something to that effect). The result is a standard EXE file which can be run in Windows-versions other than Vista.When I use Build->Publish Web Site in Visual Studio 2008, most of the time it compiles the site, and then simply asks me 'All files in the target folder will be deleted. A basic gadget host was implemented for this function's sake, which picks up the FTP-box' components. Points of InterestĪs already mentioned in the 'Build' section, the gadget can also be used as standalone- application. Both the Sidebar-gadget and the standalone can be installed individually or together.

#HOW DO I USE FTP ON VISTA INSTALL#

Both install versions are completely independent of one another. gadget file with which you can install the gadget as a standalone-application.

When building a release, a directory named ' Dist' is created within the FTP-Box' main folder the zipped gadget is placed in. The subfolder Impl contains the modules' implementations the gadget is based on. The solution dissects in multiple projects. The ' assemblies' directory contains the.

#HOW DO I USE FTP ON VISTA CODE#

The FTP-box's source code consists of two parts: HTML and JacaScript- Code was placed in the ' ftp-box.gadget directory'. NET as ActiveX-controls and was applied to the gadget's HTML code via the object-tag. NET ListView meets Java's JTable for the XPTable-component to display the progress of the FTP-actions FTP client library for C# for basic FTP-functions.NET Interop for Gadgets – A C# GMail Inbox Reader Example for the function to register a COM-component Special kudos go to the authors of the following articles, whose components and code parts have been used in this gadget:

#HOW DO I USE FTP ON VISTA HOW TO#

How to drag a virtual file from your app into Windows Explorer.

Adding Drag and Drop to an Explorer Tree Control.

Remote Control for Winamp - creating a skinnable Sidebar Gadget.

Speaking of which we explicitly want to thank the authors of the following articles for their valuable hints: However, quite a lot of time had to be spent to cope with technical problems concerning drag & drop as well as the integration of. It was used to test the implementation of a Blackboard-architecture.

BackgroundįTP-box was created in between 2 weeks. The gadget's primary concept is a cross-computer/cross-platform 'clipboard' to quickly access and/or share files. It supports upload/download/delete commands, drag & drop, periodic file list updating, action progress bars and a detail-view-flyout. FTP-Box is a basic FTP-client for the Windows Sidebar.

How do i use ftp on vista