System.Net.Webclient

What's the proper way to download a file off the Internet? I could use WebRequest or WebClient, which one am I better off using?

I want to build a progress bar for my downloader, so how can I do that? I tried using webclient.OpenRead but the stream I got back I couldn't seek through, so how the hell do I know how big a file off the Internet is supposed to be?

Can't really implement a progress bar until I know that now, can I?

Here's my crappy ass code that doesn't work.

VB Code:

Public Sub DownloadFile(ByVal fileUrl As String, ByVal saveTo As String, ByVal progress As ProgressBar)
 
        Dim client As New WebClient
        Dim myStream As Stream = client.OpenRead(fileUrl)
 
        progress.Visible = True
        progress.Maximum = CType(myStream.Length, Integer)
 
        'Dim sr As New StreamReader(myStream)
 
        Dim r As New BinaryReader(myStream)
        Dim fs As New FileStream(saveTo, FileMode.Create)
        Dim w As New BinaryWriter(fs)
 
        Dim i As Long, res As Byte, locate As Integer = 0
 
        For i = 0 To myStream.Length
 
            res = r.ReadByte()
            w.Write(res)
            progress.Value += 1
 
        Next i
 
        progress.Visible = False
        progress.Value = 0
 
        w.Close()
        fs.Close()
        r.Close()
 
        
    End Sub

try this thread in the code bank ... retrieve image size+download with progressbar ( from the web )
it's a sample i made for downloading images with a progressbar , but can be used / modified for downloading files also.

Thanks for the reply, that did the trick.