Keeping track of bytes downloaded

Question

I am making many programs that search web pages for financial information on thousands of stocks so the data adds up. Our network only allows a certain amount of bytes downloaded a day. Is there a way to keep track of how many bytes have been downloaded on a network?

Answer 1

The IP Helper API will do this. C# doesn't have an interface to it yet, I don't think. You'd have to PInvoke the whole thing. I'd recommend using C++, VB6 or Delphi to build a COM object to wrap this functionality for use in C#. Better yet, just do the whole thing in native code.