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Hi, as you can see i am new to the forums but i have been using visual basic for a while now. I would say i am ok with it and have made some good programs with it. The thing i am wanting to no though is if there is a way to connect to a website and check for updates in an external file. Once finding notifiing the user and asking them to download the update.

I know there is software that does this but it is not in my price range. If this is, well lets say possible. How can I do it.

My views on something like that would be opening up a new form, and it would then show a progress bar or something similar that would show the user if it has found them.

--Edit--
BTW I am using Visual Basic 2005

Thanks Jezz.
Jan 15 '07 #1
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Killer42
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Just from flicking through various online help (invoked from VB6), these might be of interest...

The Winsock control, invisible to the user, provides easy access to TCP and UDP network services. It can be used by Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, or Visual FoxPro developers. To write client or server applications you do not need to understand the details of TCP or to call low level Winsock APIs. By setting properties and invoking methods of the control, you can easily connect to a remote machine and exchange data in both directions.

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The Internet Transfer control provides implementation of two of the most widely used protocols on the Internet, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

Using the HTTP protocol, you can connect to World Wide Web servers to retrieve HTML documents. With the FTP protocol, you can log on to FTP servers to download and upload files. The UserName and Password properties allow you to log on to private servers that require authentication. Otherwise, you can connect to public FTP servers and download files. Common FTP commands, such as CD and GET, are supported through the Execute method.

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The WebBrowser control also sounds useful. There are others here who know much more about using these controls - I'm only just starting to look into them myself.
Jan 15 '07 #2
Just from flicking through various online help (invoked from VB6), these might be of interest...

The Winsock control, invisible to the user, provides easy access to TCP and UDP network services. It can be used by Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, or Visual FoxPro developers. To write client or server applications you do not need to understand the details of TCP or to call low level Winsock APIs. By setting properties and invoking methods of the control, you can easily connect to a remote machine and exchange data in both directions.

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The Internet Transfer control provides implementation of two of the most widely used protocols on the Internet, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

Using the HTTP protocol, you can connect to World Wide Web servers to retrieve HTML documents. With the FTP protocol, you can log on to FTP servers to download and upload files. The UserName and Password properties allow you to log on to private servers that require authentication. Otherwise, you can connect to public FTP servers and download files. Common FTP commands, such as CD and GET, are supported through the Execute method.

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The WebBrowser control also sounds useful. There are others here who know much more about using these controls - I'm only just starting to look into them myself.
Thanks for the reply. I know where your coming from, just the problem I am having is trying to get these into a project. Take Apple for example. They have their own little program that will locate new updated files from a server, remembering the actual version number and checking in something what is probably a webserver or even an XML file(I very much dought that they would use XML but it's an example).

Same with Mozilla, they too work with the same kind of thing. I will have to think about trying to put your views into my new project and hopefully get this working.

My project was orginally to make a program launcher but instead seen as it used the work Explorer I change it to a web browser. As the web browser redirects to the users homepage I simply cannot 'hijack' that homepage such as Google to say whether there is new updates. I know it might sound like a bit too much to ask for but it would be nice to have something that could check for updates on launch. Though my main question is; Is this possible to do through a small external XML file and destination links?
Jan 15 '07 #3
Killer42
8,435 Expert 8TB
I hope you find some answers. Like I said, I'm only dipping a toe in the waters myself. This one might be worth spreading to the general Techie Talk forum, too. (Tell 'em I sent you. :))
Jan 15 '07 #4
I hope you find some answers. Like I said, I'm only dipping a toe in the waters myself. This one might be worth spreading to the general Techie Talk forum, too. (Tell 'em I sent you. :))
Ok then, I will do and I will put the Winsock into thought. Thanks
Jan 15 '07 #5
Killer42
8,435 Expert 8TB
Ok then, I will do and I will put the Winsock into thought. Thanks
I guess the main thing would be to set up a database which holds the last-updated date/time for each of the things the user is interested in. Then (probably using one of the three controls I mentioned) check this against the real document.

Anyway, good luck.
Jan 15 '07 #6

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