DropBox: how to upload files to DropBox using code

DropBox is a great little service that simply “just works”. If you have a DropBox account and wish to operate this from code, you have to know a great deal about REST and other “webby” stuff to communicate with the DropBox account. But, a great little library exists that shields you from all of this. On “github” (what ever that means?) ) you will find the DropNet library that helps you out here. It will allow you to operate the DropBox account quite easily.

How to do ?
1) Register a developer account at Dropbox.com
2) Obtain the ‘key’ and ‘secret’ from DropBox.com (found under ‘My Apps’)
3) Call into the users DropBox account like below

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    //client
    var client = new DropNet.DropNetClient("32131rwzxynxo50t", "fwwesodkiwud8");

    //login
    client.Login("user@domain.com", "password");

    Console.WriteLine("Uploading file...");

    //update file (testfile1.txt) -> dropbox
    byte[] rawData = File.ReadAllBytes("textfile1.txt");
    var result = client.UploadFile("Test", "textfile1.txt", rawData);

    Console.WriteLine("Status = {0}", result.StatusCode);
}

As evident from the sample, you can stream the file to DropBox using the client.UploadFile(<folder>, <filename>, <raw bytes>).

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