Is there a smarter way than a busy-wait to check for download completion of System.Net.WebClient.DownloadFileAsync()?

Question

I'm downloading a file using System.Net.WebClient.DownloadFileAsync(). The only reason for using the async version is to show the progress of the download. My code execution may not continue before 100% have been reached. Currently I'm using a busy-wait (see code) but I wonder if there is a smarter way to do it.

using(WebClient oWebClient = new WebClient())
{
    oWebClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
    long lReceived = 0;
    long lTotal = 0;
    // Set up a delegate to watch download progress.
    oWebClient.DownloadProgressChanged += delegate(object sender, DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(e.ProgressPercentage + "% (" + e.BytesReceived / 1024f + "kb of " + e.TotalBytesToReceive / 1024f + "kb)");
            // Assign to outer variables to allow busy-wait to check.
        lReceived = e.BytesReceived;
        lTotal = e.TotalBytesToReceive;
    };
    oWebClient.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri(sUrl + "?" + sPostData), sTempFile);
    while(lReceived == 0 || lReceived != lTotal)
    {
           // Busy wait.
        Thread.Sleep(1000);
    }
}

Answer 1

using(WebClient oWebClient = new WebClient())
{
    // use an event for waiting, rather than a Thread.Sleep() loop.
    var notifier = new AutoResetEvent(false);

    oWebClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
    long lReceived = 0;
    long lTotal = 0;
    // Set up a delegate to watch download progress.
    oWebClient.DownloadProgressChanged += delegate(object sender, DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(e.ProgressPercentage + "% (" + e.BytesReceived / 1024f + "kb of " + e.TotalBytesToReceive / 1024f + "kb)");
        // Assign to outer variables to allow busy-wait to check.
        lReceived = e.BytesReceived;
        lTotal = e.TotalBytesToReceive;

        // Indicate that things are done
        if(lReceived >= lTotal) notifier.Set();
    };

    oWebClient.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri(sUrl + "?" + sPostData), sTempFile);

    // wait for signal to proceed
    notifier.WaitOne();
}

Answer 2

Use an AutoResetEvent. Call its Set() method in a DownloadFileCompleted event handler, its WaitOne() method after the DownloadFileAsync() call.