And so it begins.
So here I sit writing my first blog post and I must say it's somewhat of a relief. Why you may ask? I shall tell you.. Peer pressure, that's right, we all remember that after school special. As you can see by my 'cohorts' section several of my friends are long standing contributors to this blogitorium. They all also happen to be members of the WeProgram.NET user group. As per our usual post meeting banter the subject of blogs and blogging comes up.. Along with that the inevitable question; “So when are you going to start a blog Chris?”. Well I could stands no more, so let the blogging goodness commense!
So for my first useful contribution I submit this: edtFTPnet. This is a open license FTP API whose methods mirror the old command line FTP commands. I've used this API in several windows services I've written when I needed to retrieve data files from our various clients. It's easy to implement and it's free. It doesn't get much better than that. If your app needs FTP functionality I recommend this.