This is as good a place as any to get off on a rant about one of my primary peeves about .NET training and examples - the console app! In real life there are no console apps !! <s>

Dropping out of the windows environment to run something that looks like it was created in edlin in DOS 2.0 is just silly.

Surely messageboxes, redirection to the output window, pretty much anything that didn't involve popping up a silly black screen would hew closer to the kind of app people are actually trying to write.

Were I writing training material the first thing on my agenda would be to write a simple harness app that would accept the output and display it in the Windows envrironment.

/set rant off

>>I'm lookoing at this example on MSDN on how to FTP download a file. I don't see where the file is downloaded to...
>>
>>This is the page and the code
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229711(VS.90).aspx
>>

>>using System;
>>using System.IO;
>>using System.Net;
>>using System.Text;
>>
>>namespace Examples.System.Net
>>{
>>    public class WebRequestGetExample
>>    {
>>        public static void Main ()
>>        {
>>            // Get the object used to communicate with the server.
>>            FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://www.contoso.com/test.htm");
>>            request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
>>
>>            // This example assumes the FTP site uses anonymous logon.
>>            request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential ("anonymous","janeDoe@contoso.com");
>>
>>            FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
>>    
>>            Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
>>            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
>>            Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
>>
>>            Console.WriteLine("Download Complete, status {0}", response.StatusDescription);
>>    
>>            reader.Close();
>>            response.Close();  
>>        }
>>    }
>>}

>
>To the console :-}