
If you run just as a user, you can only monitor your own BITS traffic. If your program runs as admin, you can monitor all the BITS traffic on a machine. Your program can also monitor BITS downloads and uploads. Your program can create new downloads from and uploads to HTTP web servers and SMB file servers. To use BITS from C++ using its native COM interface, see the GitHub sample at. In this blog post I’ll show how you can easily use BITS from a C# or other. BITS will handle problems like network outages, expensive networks (when your user is on a cell plan and is roaming), and more. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is an easy way for programs to ask Windows to download files from or upload files to a remote HTTP or SMB file server. Programs nowadays often need to download files and data from the internet – maybe they need new content, new configurations, or the latest updates.

About BITS and downloading and uploading files
