FTP Client Control

The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Client control allows file and data transfer between a remote and local machine.

Remarks

The FTP Client control, invisible to the user, provides easy access for Internet FTP services. It can be used by Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, and Visual FoxPro programmers. To write applications that use FTP you do not need to understand the details of FTP or to call low level WinSock APIs. By setting properties and invoking methods of the control, you can easily connect to a remote machine and exchange data in both directions. Events notify you of network activities.

The FTP control also provides file and directory parsing of the List and NameList commands, making it possible for you to access the file size, attributes, name, or other fields without querying the server to determine the type of operating system (and hence file system) running on the remote server. For more details, see the FTPDirItem Objects topic.

Using the FTP Client control gives you the ability to integrate file transfers into your program without learning a completely different computer language or transfer protocol.