Xamarin.iOS: Saving files to windows shared folder - ios

Question

I have an iOS app written using Xamarin. Is there a way to save some file (in my case Image) to a shared folder on Windows PC? iOS device and PC are in the same WiFi network, so I can get access to PC machine by IP address. But how can I save a file to that shared folder?
If that is possible I would be grateful for some code example.

Answer 1

Are you try SharpCifs.Std?
NuGet Package is here.
drives SMB on Xamarin.iOS, like this.
var file = new SmbFile("smb://UserName:Password#ServerName/ShareName/Folder/NewFileName.txt"));
file.CreateNewFile();
var writeStream = file.GetOutputStream();
writeStream.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("Hello!"));

Answer 2

In my Xamarin application (on iPad Pro 12.9") I kind of worked around this problem by activating FTP on my Windows10 machine (see Google how to do this) and then uploaded the image to the Windows folder via FTP:
private void UploadImage(UIImage image, string fileName)
{
try
{
string ftpPath = "ftp://192.168.47.79/"; // IP of my Windows10 pc
string ftpTargetFilePath = $"{ftpPath}{fileName}";
var credentials = new NetworkCredential("ftpuser", "ftp");
FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(ftpTargetFilePath);
request.Credentials = credentials;
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
request.UsePassive = false; // in my case I needed passive mode to be deactivated
using (Stream imageStream = image.AsPNG().AsStream())
{
using (Stream ftpStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
imageStream.CopyTo(ftpStream);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Debug.WriteLine($"Uploading Image: Failed! ({ex.Message})");
}
}