retrieve web page to string

[Al Reid]

Hi,

In VB6 I would use the Inet Control to retrieve the contents of a web page to a string. What is the .NET way of doing this?
TIA,

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Al Reid

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Al Reid" <ar*****@reidDASHhome.com> schrieb:

In VB6 I would use the Inet Control to retrieve the contents of a web page
to a string. What is the .NET way of doing this?

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Imports System.IO
Imports System.Net
..
..
..
Public Function LoadTextFile(ByVal Url As String) As String
Dim wrq As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(Url)
Dim wrp As HttpWebResponse = _
DirectCast(wrq.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Dim sr As New StreamReader(wrp.GetResponseStream())
Dim Text As String = sr.ReadToEnd()
sr.Close()
wrp.Close()
Return Text
End Function
///

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Al Reid]

Herfried,

Thanks so much.

As a newbie to .Net, I missed the System.Net and was looking at System.Web namespace. your code makes perfect sense.

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Al Reid

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know
for sure that just ain't so." --- Mark Twain

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message news:u2*************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

"Al Reid" <ar*****@reidDASHhome.com> schrieb:

In VB6 I would use the Inet Control to retrieve the contents of a web page
to a string. What is the .NET way of doing this?

\\\
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Net
.
.
.
Public Function LoadTextFile(ByVal Url As String) As String
Dim wrq As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(Url)
Dim wrp As HttpWebResponse = _
DirectCast(wrq.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Dim sr As New StreamReader(wrp.GetResponseStream())
Dim Text As String = sr.ReadToEnd()
sr.Close()
wrp.Close()
Return Text
End Function
///

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>