ftp download

public static bool DownloadFileFromServer(Uri serverUri, string localFileName)
{
    // The serverUri parameter should start with the ftp:// scheme.
    if (serverUri.Scheme != Uri.UriSchemeFtp)
    {
        return false;
    }
    // Get the object used to communicate with the server.
    // Note that the cast to FtpWebRequest is done only
    // for the purposes of illustration. If your application
    // does not set any properties other than those defined in the
    // System.Net.WebRequest class, you can use the following line instead:
    // WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(serverUri);
    //
    FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(serverUri);
    request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;

    FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();

    Stream responseStream = null;
    StreamReader readStream = null;
    StreamWriter writeStream = null;
    try
    {
        responseStream = response.GetResponseStream(); 
        readStream = new StreamReader(responseStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
        // Display information about the data received from the server.
        Console.WriteLine("Bytes received: {0}",response.ContentLength);   

        Console.WriteLine("Message from server: {0}", response.StatusDescription);
        Console.WriteLine("Resource: {0}", response.ResponseUri);

        // Write the bytes received from the server to the local file.
        if (readStream != null)
        {
            writeStream = new StreamWriter(localFileName, false);
            writeStream.Write(readStream.ReadToEnd());
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        if (readStream != null)
        {
            readStream.Close();
        }
        if (response != null)
        {
            response.Close();
        }
        if (writeStream != null)
        {
            writeStream.Close();
        }
    }
    return true;
}//=============================================================

// for download

WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
// Get remote file stream for downloading.
Stream remoteFileStream = response.GetResponseStream();
Stream localFileStream = File.Create("myfile.zip");
// Create a new buffer to download.
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int n;
do
{
   // Read data from the remote file stream.
   n = remoteFileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
   // Write to the local file stream.
   localFileStream.Write(buffer, 0, n);
} while (n > 0);
Console.WriteLine("Response Received.");
localFileStream.Close();
// Release the resources of the response.
remoteFileStream.Close();
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/17202/Simple-FTP-demo-application-using-C-Net-2-0