FtpWebRequest , FtpWebResponse ToString(???)

[cVz]

After a lot of testing etc, i decided to move away from the 3rd party FTP classes and use the standard Microsoft FtpWebRequest for faster speeds etc...

What i want to do is list the directories in a treeview!

Now here's my code :

try
            {
                FTPRequest = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://iwantstringsman");
                FTPRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails;

                FTPRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(txtftpUserName.Text, txtftpPassword.Text);

                FtpWebResponse FTPResponse = (FtpWebResponse)FTPRequest.GetResponse();

                Stream FTPResponseStream = FTPResponse.GetResponseStream();
                StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(FTPResponseStream);
                Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());



                Console.WriteLine("Directory List Complete, status {0}");

                foreach (char S in reader.ReadToEnd())
                {
                    /*          Making parent node          */
                    TreeNode ParentNode = new TreeNode();
                    ParentNode.Text = S.ToString(); ;

                    treeView1.Nodes.Add(ParentNode);
                }

                reader.Close();
                FTPResponseStream.Close();
            }
            catch (Exception EX)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(EX.Message);
            }

Problem is this (the reader.ReadToEnd() only supports Characters)

how can i get this in string format ???

Regards...

Thanks in advance

[Antenka]

Hello, cVz.
StreamReader.ReadToEnd method has this signature (taken from MSDN):

public override string ReadToEnd()

The returning type is string.
Am I misunderstood something?

[cVz]

I know , but it doesn't , its made up of char's, sadly enough ....

i just want to know how to convert this back to string...

[LizR]

But strings *ARE* made of chars..
the fact you're walking through them (at your request) as chars, will mean you get chars back..

[cVz]

FTPRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails;

there are the details

But im just in beta mode for now , never worked with MS FtpWebRequest before ...

but hey man , like i always say , give me a day and i'll be posting full code snippets on here..

Ps read your messages :P

[LizR]

I dont read and answer personal messages, unless Ive asked for them.

[LizR]

But as Antenka said, its a string, the string consists of a number of lines.. all worked fine for me as long as I turned passive ftp off (possibly due to where I am) using reader.ReadtoEnd()

[Antenka]

Maybe your troubles caused by way, you use to read from stream?

foreach (char S in reader.ReadToEnd())

[cVz]

foreach (char S in reader.ReadToEnd())

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then i get little characters... hmmm...ok something doesnt click here ...

error CS0030: Cannot convert type 'char' to 'string'

i cant understand why its not reading it because ive even tried converting it ...

[cVz]

Antenka, you were right , readToEnd() is string format , but its not an array ... ahaaaaaa, so how can we make an array here is the new question...

[LizR]

Well, thats been covered enough times on this forum for you to be able to find it. But of course you will ignore me as you have all throughout this thread.

[Antenka]

Antenka, you were right , readToEnd() is string format , but its not an array

Didn't said, that this is array. That part of code was taken from your's first post ...

[Antenka]

This may help you:Sample code for parsing FtpwebRequest response for ListDirectoryDetails