Does .NET have a BITS module?

I have been researching in to using Background Intelligent Transfer Service. Most articles I have seen says there is no official .NET port but they recommend using sharpBITS. I will use sharpBITS if I have to but I noticed that all of the articles are referencing .NET 1.1 and 2.0, they seem to have bee开发者_如何学Gon written before 3.0 came out. Was BITS added to 3.0, 3.5, or expected to be in 4.0? I have tried to Google around but BITS is too common of a word in the programming world.

No, .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 do not expose a managed interface to the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).

BITS is a very Microsoft-specific technology, and it is highly unlikely they will integrate it into the base class libraries (BCL).

That being said, sharpBITS is probably your best bet, I wouldn't expect it to be in the BCL ever, but I could see it being a separate library that MS exposes under the Microsoft namespace (as they do with products like, Sharepoint and SQL Server Management).

I don't think that there will be support for BITS directly in .NET. As .NET Core will be the future place for new features it is unlikely that a Windows only API for BITS will be part of the .NET Framework.

You can find a .NET wrapper for BITS including source code here: https://github.com/usis-software/usis.Net.Bits.

I've implemented this library because is seems taht sharpBITS is no longer maintained and also never made it to GibHub.

There's also a NuGet package available.

Good news! There's a brand new learn.microsoft.com page that talks about using BITS and C#, plus a brand-new C#/WPF sample on GitHub.

The sample shows how enumerate jobs, resume/pause/cancel, and make new jobs.

No, there's no built-in class. There is a wrapper (Sample) that MS published:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=93540887-A6D1-405C-8B3C-45DB02E6A8D4&displaylang=en&displaylang=env

Not exactly .NET but in newer versions of windows powershell commandlets (*-BitsTransfer) where added that allow you to manipulate BITS transfers.