How to download a file from Dropbox using the Dropbox .NET wrapper

So far we’ve covered the following topics in the Dropbox series:

Part 1: Authentication

Part 2: API Requests

Part 3: Create, Delete and Move Folders

Once you are authenticated you can make API requests such as requesting your account information, creating, deleting folders…etc. One particular type of request is downloading a file from your Dropbox account. Once you’ve worked your way through the previous 3 parts this becomes trivially easy.

If you want to follow along go to the download page and download the code for the third part (article #65). Unzip it and open it up in Visual Studio.

A New Method

Let’s add a new method to the DropboxApi type called DownloadFile(…).

public FileSystemInfo DownloadFile(string root, string path)

{

   // ...

}

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