File copying using FTP

FTPFileCopy

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace FtpFileCopy
{
    public class FtpFileUpload
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            FtpFileUpload.ftpfileUpload(@"D:\Test\sample.xml");
        }
        public static bool ftpfileUpload(string inputfilepath)
        {
            string ftpMachinePath = "ftp://10.19.74.99/SAMPLE/samplecopy.xml";
            string ftpMachineUserName = "gopikreddy";
            string ftpMachinePassword = "password";

            FtpWebRequest ftp = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(ftpMachinePath);
            //userid and password for the ftp server to given
            ftp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ftpMachineUserName, ftpMachinePassword);

            ftp.KeepAlive = true;
            ftp.UseBinary = true;
            try
            {
                ftp.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
                FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(inputfilepath);
                byte[] buffer = new byte[fs.Length];
                fs.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                fs.Close();
                Stream ftpstream = ftp.GetRequestStream();
                ftpstream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                ftpstream.Close();
                return true;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {                
                throw ex;
            }
        }
    }
}