Re: URLDownloadToFile Errors

From:
 alphaLaura@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:29:49 -0000
Message-ID:
<1184146189.081901.276270@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 10, 5:16 pm, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:

alphaLa...@gmail.com wrote:

On Jul 10, 4:16 pm, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:

int main()
{

long int returnValue = 0;
LPCTSTR URL =
"ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/EICK.TXT";
LPCTSTR FILENAME = "c:\\wx.txt";

returnValue = URLDownloadToFile(NULL, URL, FILENAME, 0, NULL);

return 0;

}


Thank you! I just edited the program, but it's actually still giving
me the exact same error message: "error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot
convert from 'const char [67]' to 'LPCTSTR'.


Sorry, my bad. Should be

LPCTSTR URL =
_T("ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/EICK.TXT");
LPCTSTR FILENAME = _T("c:\\wx.txt");

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Ok, I'm getting places now. I have a linker error...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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#include "stdafx.h"
//#include "afxinet.h"
#include <iostream>
#include "Urlmon.h"

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    long int returnValue = 0;
    LPCTSTR URL = _T("ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/
stations/EICK.TXT");
    LPCTSTR FILENAME = _T("c:\\wx.txt");

    returnValue = URLDownloadToFile(NULL, URL, FILENAME, 0, NULL);

    return 0;
}
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++

"fetchMET.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
_URLDownloadToFileW@20 referenced in function _main
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\Visual Studio
2005\Projects\fetchMET\Debug\fetchMET.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1
unresolved externals"

Have I left out an appropriate header file?

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