suppress save/dialog in web browser and automate the download

Question

I want to automate the download of an exe prompted from a link from the client side. I can get the first redirected link from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156 to ht

Answer 1

Just tested this out and it will download the file.

WebClient client = new WebClient();

client.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");

client.DownloadFile(url, "Filename.exe");

You just needed to add the user-agent as the particular silverlight download depends on what browser you are running on, hence if it can't detect one then it will fail.

Change the user-agent to something that will trigger the appropriate download you want.