Asynchronous File Download with Progress Bar

Question

I am attempting to have a progress bar\'s progress change as the WebClient download progress changes. This code still downloads the file yet when I call s

Answer 1

UI Thread will be freezed when you click startDownload(). If you don't want get form freezed, you use startDownload() in another thread and make progress updating in cross-threaded. One way,

private void startDownload()
{
    Thread thread = new Thread(() => {
          WebClient client = new WebClient();
          client.DownloadProgressChanged += new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(client_DownloadProgressChanged);
          client.DownloadFileCompleted += new AsyncCompletedEventHandler(client_DownloadFileCompleted);
          client.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri("http://joshua-ferrara.com/luahelper/lua.syn"), @"C:\LUAHelper\Syntax Files\lua.syn");
    });
    thread.Start();
}
void client_DownloadProgressChanged(object sender, DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
    this.BeginInvoke((MethodInvoker) delegate {
        double bytesIn = double.Parse(e.BytesReceived.ToString());
        double totalBytes = double.Parse(e.TotalBytesToReceive.ToString());
        double percentage = bytesIn / totalBytes * 100;
        label2.Text = "Downloaded " + e.BytesReceived + " of " + e.TotalBytesToReceive;
        progressBar1.Value = int.Parse(Math.Truncate(percentage).ToString());
    });
}
void client_DownloadFileCompleted(object sender, AsyncCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    this.BeginInvoke((MethodInvoker) delegate {
         label2.Text = "Completed";
    }); 
}

Read more multi-threading in Google like this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms951089.aspx

-Fixed missing close ); to the bgThread declaration