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willie v.
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9 years ago

file access without download

Hello Ive been asked by a company to develop a application for them that will do all their quotes. currently all the items they sell is on a excel book and they want to keep using the excel book to...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Willie, on the Dropbox side of things, you can use the .NET SDK to interact with Dropbox API v2:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/dotnet

Our samples are in C#, but as of version 3.0.0 of the SDK, it should work with Visual Basic as well. For example, to download a file (e.g., an Excel file), you could use the DownloadAsync method.

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