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Upload Image to Dropbox with URL

DropboxClient dbx = new DropboxClient("my_Key");
var folder = "/Apps/Images";
var file = $"fileName.jpg";
var fileToUpload = #"C:\Users\LENOVO\Test\Test\test.jpg";
using (var mem = new MemoryStream(File.ReadAllBytes(fileToUpload)))
{
var updated = await dbx.Files.UploadAsync(folder + "/" + file,
WriteMode.Overwrite.Instance,
body: mem);
Console.WriteLine("Saved {0}/{1} rev {2}", folder, file, updated.Rev);
}
i want to upload Image to Dropbox. This code is worked but i want fileToUpload to be is a web URL because images is a Web Server. i know i can download every Images step by step. But this is a loss of performance. If i write a WebUrl in the fileToUpload. i see the exception. For Example:
fileToUpload = "https:\upload.wikimedia.org\wikipedia\commons\5\51\Small_Red_Rose.JPG"
The Exception:
C:\Users\LENOVO****\bin\Debug\net6.0\https:\upload.wikimedia.org\wikipedia\commons\5\51\Small_Red_Rose.JPG
*** - is a local folder name
i want to upload image to dropbox from Web

The UploadAsync method requires that you supply the data of the file to upload directly, as you are doing in your example by retrieving the file data from the local filesystem using File.ReadAllBytes.
If you want to upload a file to Dropbox directly from a URL without downloading it to your local filesystem first, you should instead use the SaveUrlAsync method.

C# Download an image from URL

I use a website to get stats on wifi usage. The website creates an image of a graph representation of the data. The way it does this is by the user, setting a date. So for example, lets say it was last months statistics. The website generates a URL which is then sent to the server and the server returns an image. an examples of the link is like this:
https://www.example.com/graph/daily_usage?time_from=2015-06-01+00%3A00%3A00+%2B0100&time_to=2015-06-30+23%3A59%3A59+%2B0100&tsp=1436519988
The problem is, I am making a third party program that will download this image to be used in my program. However, I cannot use the file. It is as if the file is corrupt or something. I have tried a few methods but maybe someone can suggest a different approach. Basically, how do I download an image that is generated by a server from a URL link?
P.S.
Just noticed that if I download the file by right clicking through a browser and save, the image downloads with a size of 17.something kilobytes. But if I use the WebClient method to download the image, it only downloads 1.5kb. Why would that be? Seems like the WebClient method does not download completely.
Currently my code
if (hrefAtt == "Usage Graph")
{
string url = element.getAttribute("src");
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadFile(url, tempFolderPath + "\\" + currentAcc + "_UsageSummary.png");
wd.AddImagesToDoc(tempFolderPath + "\\" + currentAcc + "_UsageSummary.png");
wd.SaveDocument();
}
TempFolderPath is my desktop\TempFolder\
UPDATE
Out of random, I decided to see the raw data of the file with notepad and interestingly, the image data was actually a copy of the websites homepage html code, not the raw data of the image :S how does that make sense?

This will download the Google logo:
var img = Bitmap.FromStream(new MemoryStream(new WebClient().DownloadData("https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo11w.png")));

First of all, you have to understand link texture. If all links are same or close to each other, you have to use substring/remove/datetime etc. methods to make your new request link. For example;
string today = DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();
string generatedLink = #"http://www.yoururl.com/image + " + today + ".jpg";
string generatedFileName = #"C:\Usage\usage + " + today + ".jpg";
WebClient wClient = new WebClient();
wClient.DownloadFile(generatedLink, generatedFileName);

Using webclient to download images from deployed website

i deployed a website on IIS running on localhost/xxx/xxx.aspx . On my WPF side , i download a textfile using webclient from the localhost server and save it at my wpf app folder
this is how i do it :
protected void DownloadData(string strFileUrlToDownload)
{
WebClient client = new WebClient();
byte[] myDataBuffer = client.DownloadData(strFileUrlToDownload);
MemoryStream storeStream = new MemoryStream();
storeStream.SetLength(myDataBuffer.Length);
storeStream.Write(myDataBuffer, 0 , (int)storeStream.Length);
storeStream.Flush();
string currentpath = System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + #"\Folder";
using (FileStream file = new FileStream(currentpath, FileMode.Create, System.IO.FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
byte[] bytes = new byte[storeStream.Length];
storeStream.Read(bytes, 0, (int)storeStream.Length);
file.Write(myDataBuffer, 0, (int)storeStream.Length);
storeStream.Close();
}
//The below Getstring method to get data in raw format and manipulate it as per requirement
string download = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(myDataBuffer);
}
This is by writing btyes and saving them . But how do i download multiple image files and save it on my WPF app folder? I have a URL like this localhost/websitename/folder/designs/ , under this URL , there is many images , how do i download all of them ? and save it on WPF app folder?
Basically i want to download the contents of the folder whereby the contents are actually images.

First, the WebClient class already has a method for this. Use something like client.DownloadFile(remoteUrl, localFilePath).
See this link:
WebClient.DownloadFile Method (String, String)
Secondly, you will need to index the files you want to download on the server somehow. You can't just get a directory listing over HTTP and then loop through it. The web server will need to be configured to enable directory listing, or you will need a page to generate a directory listing. Then you will need to download the results of that page as a string using WebClient.DownloadString and parse it. A simple solution would be an aspx page that outputs a plaintext list of files in the directory you want to download.
Finally, in the code you posted you're saving every single file you download as a file named "Folder". You need to generate a unique filename for each file you want to download. When you're looping through the files you want to download, use something like:
string localFilePath = Path.Combine("MyDownloadFolder", imageName);
where imageName is a unique filename (with file extension) for that file.

Can I reference local files in a webview when I use navigatetostring?

I'm using a webview to display certain data in my windows 8 app. I would like to user an include to a local js file as well as use locally stored images.
Is this possible?
I haven't had any luck by putting the local path where the files are located.

According to WebView documentation you can only reference other files using the ms-appx-web protocol, i.e. to load the files stored in Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation, meaning that they need to be distributed as content along with your application. The control doesn't support ms-appdata protocol for security reasons, i.e. you can't open files stored Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.RemoteFolder or Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.TempFolder where you'd need to put them if you were generating or downloading them at runtime.
In JavaScript apps WebView is a bit more flexible: it does support ms-appdata protocol as well, but only for media files such as images. It cannot open any potentially executable code, such as script or CSS.

If you want to open some local .html file or atc. you should download it in InstalledLocation folder. If you haven't option to create a new file you can just use file.CopyAsync(htmlFolder, fname + ".html");
For example I create some .html file:
StorageFolder htmlFolder = await Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation.CreateFolderAsync(#"HtmlFiles", CreationCollisionOption.GenerateUniqueName);
IStorageFile file = await htmlFolder .CreateFileAsync(fname + ".html", CreationCollisionOption.GenerateUniqueName);
and than I can easily open this .html file with or without FileOpenPicker:
var fop = new FileOpenPicker();
fop.FileTypeFilter.Add(".html");
var file = await fop.PickSingleFileAsync();
if (file != null)
{
string myPath = file.Path.Substring(file.Path.IndexOf("HtmlFiles"));
myWebview.Navigate(new Uri("ms-appx-web:///" + myPath));
}
And don't forget - just only from InstalledLocation you can open it with ms-appx-web:///

If the WebView is IE10 based, FIleReader may be what you are looking for. Here is a snippet of code that I use on an image ipload page to show images in a page when they are selected via a File Open dialog:
$('input:file').each(function(index, evt){
if(index===0)
{
var files = evt.files;
for(var i=0;i<files.length;i++)
{
if(files[i].name===filename)
{
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload=(function(theFile){
return function(e){
var line= uploader.fineUploader('getItemByFileId',id);
if(line!=undefined)
$(line).append('<img class="fileimage" id="fileImage-' + id + '" src="'+e.target.result+'" />');
};
})(files[i]);
reader.readAsDataURL(files[i]);
break;
}
}
}
I hope this points you in the right direction!

Trouble saving a downloaded file to the desktop in WPF C#

When I use:
WebClient web = new WebClient();
web.DownloadProgressChanged += new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(ProgressChangedWeb);
web.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri("http://www.website.com/Webs.exe"),
Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop + #"\Webs.exe");
...Nothing downloads.
But if i change it to"
WebClient web = new WebClient();
web.DownloadProgressChanged += new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(ProgressChangedWeb);
web.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri("http://www.website.com/Webs.exe"),
Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop + "Webs.exe");
Then It downloads, but I get a file named "desktopWebs.exe". So How can I save a file to the desktop?
Thanks

What you want is this...
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) + #"\Webs.exe";
Otherwise you are just tacking on the word desktop instead of the actual path.

You can use Path.Combine
web.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri("http://www.website.com/Webs.exe"),
Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.DesktopDirectory), "Webs.exe"));
This function will automatically insert (or remove) slashes as well as adapt to any file system being used
You should also consider using Environment.SpecialFolder.DesktopDirectory, this points to the actual physical location of the desktop folder on the disk.