'An exception occurred during a WebClient request" while using C# ASP.NET

Question

So, I have built an auto update program to my program.

The code that is running in here is:

new WebClient().DownloadFile(\"XXXX\", checkingfolder.Select         


        

Answer 1

I ran into this error when I was trying to download a file, where the resulting downloaded file path would have been longer than some arbitrary limit

After changing the downloaded file's path name to be 250 characters long, the problem went away