LiveSDK: C # how to get file size before downloading

Question

I was wondering how to get the file size from Skydrive before downloading so that the application can decide whether or not to download according to the file size.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Microsoft.Live.DynamicDictionary has everything I wanted. The dictionary has a key for "size".

Here are all 16 keys

• ID
• from
• name
• Description
• parent_id
• the size
• upload_location
• comments_count
• comments_enabled
• is_embeddable
• number
• link
• of type
• shared_with
• created_time
• updated_time

Answer 2

As Sander said, getting the file size may vary depending on your type of implementation. For me, I use HttpClient requests and responses. As soon as I receive a response from skydrive, I can read the number of bytes in the contents of the file before downloading it and provide the user with information about the file size before starting the download.