FTPConnection vs FTPClient

Question

Apart syntax differences, FTPConnection and FTPClient appear to perform the same. Is this correct? Should one object be used over the other? I am sending personnel updates in ASCII files to a vendor site once a day. The files are < 100k.

Thank you.

Answer 1

They both can be used for FTP and have roughly the same FTP functionality. FTPConnection is however a .NET component and can be dropped on Windows forms.

FTPClient will eventually be deprecated so in general you should use FTPConnection.

Answer 2

Bruce,

Thank you for the info.

Answer 3

On a somewhat related note, is there any real difference between FTPConnection and using SecureFTPConnection with FileTransferProtocol=FTP?

I need to provide ftp and sftp services to some msbuild tasks I am writing. would be nice to just use SecureFTpConnection and change the protocol depending on if I want sftp or not rather than having to instantiate FTPConnection or SecureFTPConnection as appropriate and having to cast from one to the other ar various times.....

Answer 4

SecureFTPConnection is a subclass of FTPConnection and supports all the functionality of this class. In addition, SecureFTPConnection offers quite a few other features such as directory transfers, asynchronous methods and SOCKS/HTTP proxy support.

So it's perfectly fine for you just to use SecureFTPConnection (with Protocol=FTP). In fact, we've designed the class with this intention in mind.

- Hans (EnterpriseDT)