vb.net - Strip HTML from website

[MarkusJ_NZ]

This is a small function that allows a user to retrieve the text from a website minus the HTML.

Public Function RemoveHtml(ByVal sURL As String) As String
        Dim oHttpWebRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest
        Dim oStream As System.IO.Stream
        Dim sTemp As String
        oHttpWebRequest = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(sURL))
        Dim oHttpWebResponse As System.Net.WebResponse = oHttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
        oStream = oHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream
        sTemp = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(New System.IO.StreamReader(oStream).ReadToEnd(), "<[^>]*>", "")
        oStream.Close()
        oHttpWebResponse.Close()
        Return sTemp
    End Function

To use it simply pass in the url of the website that you want to retrieve the text from

textbox1.text = RemoveHtml("http://www.vbforums.com")

Cheers
MarkusJ