System.Net.FtpClient 9995 Alpha

System.Net.FtpClient 9995 Alpha brings you an advanced and convenient to use tool which is designed to support SSL/TLS connections for command and data channels and parsing various file listing formats. This project is being developed with C#. It is a client implementation of the FTP protocol that is designed to be easy to use and easy to extend.  This code is still very much a work in progress. It's currently in alpha status and will remain there until developers end up with what they feel is a stable API. 

Although there are probably bugs, don't let the alpha tag fool you.  They are working hard to make and keep what's already published as solid as can be expected from a project that is still under early and heavy development. You can expect API changes that might break your own code compilation from time to time. They will do their best to document these kind of modifications as thoroughly as possible in the revision and active release comments. System.Net.FtpClient is comprised of several classes. The core classes are FtpControlConnection and FtpDataStream. The FtpControlConnection class implements only the necessary features for connecting to a FTP server and opening data connections.

The FtpDataStream class, as you might have guessed, handles the data streams for file downloads and file listing (and anything else that might require a data channel). The FtpClient class is a more functional implementation of the FTP protocol. It extends FtpControlConnection to provide an easy to use FTP implementation. Most people will probably not need anything more than FtpClient. If you want a more stream lined implementation for special cases, Extending System.Net.FtpClient is probably where you want to start. 

• This is a release build of revision 9995. There are several changes, please see the source commit notes for each revision since the last release to get an idea what has changed. The BeginConnect() EndConnect() methods are still experimental, use them at your own risk unless you just want to help with testing and bug reporting!

• NET Framework >= 2.0