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Ok. I want to connect to tvguide.com and get show information about a show that the user inputs. I want everything to stay in my application and not open up other programs, IE or FF etc. However, I don't know where to start. Thanks for your help in advance!
you coulde use the webbrowser control to do this.
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Originally Posted by TH3 K1D
there are many ways to get the data of the website(winsock, net.sockets, inet, etc). the getting data inbetween tags is wat im not sure about.
if u do use a webbrowser control simple do this.
webbrowser1.navigate("http://site.com")
and under the webbrowser navigation complete or document complete put
dim website as string = webbrowser1.document
and that will get all the html data.
Ok, thank you both.
You would use an HttpWebRequest object to make a request to a Web server. You wouldn't use a WebBrowser control unless you wanted to display the rendered page to the user.
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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
accually webbrowser controls can be used for more then just displaying.
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You can hide it. I don't think I'm going to continue working on this project (at the time).
Of course you can create a WebBrowser control and hide it, but you could also buy a house when you need a door knob. The HttpWebRequest class exists specifically for making requests to an HTTP server. If that's what you want to do, why would you use something with all the overhead of a WebBrowser control? Controls exist to provide visual feedback to the user. If no visual feedback is required then controls should be avoided if at all possible.
I know, I was just saying you could hide it. If I were to continue this application I would deffinatly use the HttpWebRequest. I read about it on the MSDN link you posted. It seems like it can very easily do what I need it to do.
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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
u can always just declare it instead so it doesnt use up the form control memory.
also webbrowser is just a quicker way. and i never said he had to do it.