[RESOLVED] Write a string to a filestream?

[daviddoria]

My goal is to upload a string to a txt file on an ftp server.

Here is what I have found so far:

Dim clsRequest As System.Net.FtpWebRequest = _
            DirectCast(System.Net.WebRequest.Create(RemoteFilename), System.Net.FtpWebRequest)
        clsRequest.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("usr", "pw")
        clsRequest.Method = System.Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile
 
'write the string to a local text file 
        Dim Report as String = "Test Report"
        Dim ReportFile As String = "C:\report.txt"
        Dim strWriter As IO.StreamWriter
        strWriter = New IO.StreamWriter(ReportFile)
        strWriter.Write(Report)
        strWriter.Close()
 
        ' read in file
        Dim bFile() As Byte = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(ReportFile)
 
        ' upload file
        Dim clsStream As System.IO.Stream = clsRequest.GetRequestStream()
        clsStream.Write(bFile, 0, bFile.Length)
        clsStream.Close()
        clsStream.Dispose()

It seems pretty silly to do it like this! (write the file and then immediately read it again). Is there a way to convert a String into something that clsStream.Write will accept?

Thanks,

Dave

[chris128]

Cant you just do:

System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Some string here")

or does that not work in this case? (I've not played with streams and bytes much to be honest so I'm kind of guessing there...)

[daviddoria]

It works just fine, I just didn't know about that

Thanks,

Dave

[chris128]

Cool, glad to hear it works