Binary Downloads

Question

I have an application that runs on a Symbol MC9090 scanner. I need to transfer and exe file from the server to the scanner for an update. When I transfer the file, everything runs fine. The logs show that the correct number of bytes have been transfered but I cannot access the newly transfered file until I close my application. The file is shown in the directory of the scanner with a size of 4K. The actual file size is 129K. When I close the app and refresh the directory on the scanner, the correct size is shown and the file is available. The app is written in VB.NET. The scanner is running Windows Mobile 5.0. I am using edtFTPnet/Compact.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Martin

Answer 1

Hi, please send an email to support at enterprisedt dot com and we'll give you a link to a patched version that we will soon release. There's a bug in CF whereby an owning stream doesn't seem to close the streams it owns, so they have to be closed explicitly, i.e. our BufferedStream doesn't close the FileStream it owns in CF.