Retrieve full path of FTP file on drag & drop? - vb.net

Question

I can read the filename using next code when dragging a file from an Ftp folder browsed on Windows explorer.
But is there a way to retrieve the full Ftp path?
Private Sub DataGridView1_DragDrop(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.DragDrop
Dim filename As String = ""
If e.Data.GetDataPresent("UniformResourceLocator") Then
Dim ioStream As System.IO.Stream = DirectCast(e.Data.GetData("FileGroupDescriptor"), System.IO.Stream)
Dim contents As Byte() = New [Byte](511) {}
ioStream.Read(contents, 0, 512)
ioStream.Close()
Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder()
Dim i As Integer = 76
While contents(i) <> 0
sb.Append(CChar(ChrW(contents(i))))
i += 1
End While
filename = sb.ToString()
End If
End Sub

Answer 1

If the data dropped contains a UniformResourceLocator format, you can get the entire URL from that, for example:
Private Sub Form1_DragDrop(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles Me.DragDrop
If e.Data.GetDataPresent("UniformResourceLocator") Then
Dim URL As String = New IO.StreamReader(CType(e.Data.GetData("UniformResourceLocator"), IO.MemoryStream)).ReadToEnd
End If
End Sub
It first checks to see if a UniformResourceLocator format exists, and if so, gets the data from e (the drag/drop argument), converts it to a MemoryStream, and passes that to a new StreamReader (for easy reading), then does a .ReadToEnd() to get the entire string.