Setting timeout property for System.Net.WebClient Class

Introduction

As the title of the article describes this article is going to describe a very simple but very helpful topic. Every now and then we are faced with a situation where we have to provide functionality to download/upload the files.The WebClient class Provides common methods for sending data to and receiving data from a resource identified by a URI, But the problem is when we try to download a bigger file which takes more time to download we get a Timeout Exception
and Web Client class does not provide any property where we can specify/set the timeout value.

Using the code 

You can make use of the WebRequest class to set the timeout property.The code contains a Wrapper class called ExtendedWebClient which is inherited from the WebClient class and a overrided method of type WebRequest which sets the timeout property.The ExtendedWebClient class can be used as WebClient Class but with the timeout property being set.

           
public class ExtendedWebClient: WebClient
{
    
    private int timeout;
    public int Timeout
    {        
   	get
    	{
           return timeout;
    	}
    	set
    	{
           timeout = value;
    	}
    }
    public ExtendedWebClient(Uri address)    
    {
         this.timeout = 600000;//In Milli seconds
         var objWebClient = GetWebRequest(address); 
    }
    protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri address)
    {
         var objWebRequest= base.GetWebRequest(address);
         objWebRequest.Timeout = this.timeout;
         return objWebRequest;
    }
}

Now you can just Instantiate the ExtendedWebClientclass nad use all the available methods and properties of WebClient class along with the timeout property being set to 600000 ms.