Free FTP Client roundup

[Demon Cleaner]

I got so pissed off with a lot of the free FTP clients, that I made my own FTP client in Visual Basic. It was very basic, but I thought it was impressive for something I knocked together in about 2 hours tops!

So do you still use it?

[woody.cool]

I got so pissed off with a lot of the free FTP clients, that I made my own FTP client in Visual Basic. It was very basic, but I thought it was impressive for something I knocked together in about 2 hours tops!

So do you still use it?

Yep! I love it. Screenshots to follow ...

[Demon Cleaner]

Great, would definitely like to see them. How's it called, CoolFTP

[woody.cool]

I called it Tiny FTP Client - because of the fact that it fits on a floppy disk (which is an achievement for any Windows application)

As promised - screenies!


The login screen


The FTP transfer window

Like I said ...... very basic!

[Harrison]

It might be quite basic, but it looks good for anyone wanting just a simple ftp client. Have you released it or just hept it for yourself?

[woody.cool]

Just kept to myself. I don't like releasing stuff, becuase it means I got to continually support it and make it better, I only make this stuff to serve my purpose.
It's all good experience, anyway. This is how I learnt programming in VB - by making basic little utilities that do things.
I was really surprissed that this worked in XP though, as I wrote it in VB4 and Windows 95 was the latest and greatest operating system back then (it was also the first PC I ever owned too).
I've also tried it in Vista and been met with success, so I think I can safely say, that it works on jsut about any OS.

Do you think I should release it?

I also wrote a basic web browser, aimed at special needs children (I worked as an IT techy in a special needs school) and the teachers had access to "FTP mode" which basically was the above FTP client, integrated in to my basic web browser.