WinRT : how to cancel a Background Download Operation

05/02/2013 , Jonathan ANTOINE , 8 Comments

Today a quick tip, easy to code but hard to find if you don’t know where to look for : how to cancel a DownloadOperation !

There is some useful methods on the DownloadOperation : Resume, Pause, Start … but wait there is no “Stop” ??

In fact, you have to attach the operation to your app before to be able to cancel it. The code is then really easy :
[csharp]theDownloadOperation.AttachAsync().Cancel();[/csharp]

Now you know how download operations are canceled in this beautiful Dropbox Client for Windows 8 : 8 Files In A Box !

8 Responses

1. Farhan

   05/02/2013 13 h 37 min

   How to do the same thing in C#/XAML ?

   • jmix90

     05/02/2013 13 h 39 min

     Exactly the same code… these are WinRT API/objects 🙂

     • Farhan

       06/02/2013 6 h 24 min

       I am not getting. Suppose this line is for downloading the file then how to cancel it ?
       LiveDownloadOperationResult result = await liveClient.BackgroundDownloadAsync(string.Format("{0}/content", FileID));

       • jmix90

         26/02/2013 13 h 31 min

         Hello Farhan,

         I was referencing this API : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/a…

         Regards,

         • Farhan

           26/02/2013 13 h 41 min

           Then how can I do stop/resume while downloading/uploading files to/from SkyDrive ?

         • jmix90

           16/03/2013 15 h 13 min

           I don\’t know I never used this… sorry

2. Clippingarea

   20/02/2016 4 h 31 min

   Nice tips, thanks for share

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