Ok heres what I have.

1] SmartClient that will ask user to pick a file from the PC. Lets say a .wmv.
       Could be anytype of file other then a image file.
2] On a click of a button the app links to a webservice and xfers the file to the webserver.

So No problem getting the user to pick a file on the their PC.
My problem is how do I load this file into a object in code, vb.net, that would allow me to xfer that object to the webservice and have the webservice save it to the folder on the webserver.

hope thats clear. I have done this every thing for image files. But there I had the nice image object to play with. In this case the file could be a .wmv / .mpg / .wma / .mp3

Any ideas, pointers to help me along here.
Thanks
Deasun

What kind of data does the web service accept? I would guess it's a byte array, right? Then you can use the System.IO.FileStream and StreamReader classes to open the selected file and read the bytes from it.

What kind of data does the web service accept? I would guess it's a byte array, right? Then you can use the System.IO.FileStream and StreamReader classes to open the selected file and read the bytes from it.