I'm busy with this sample application to practice and play around with new stuff.

OK, I got this windows form, where I want to list all the countries of the world, with their flags.

Now, that is easy when you store the countries and pictures of their flags in your appliation, but I was wondering if one can use a reliable external website (for instance this CIA page ) and if a user is connected to the internet, compare wht you currently got in a folder where you save this information.

Can this be done? Can one read / get information and resources from a site?