Downloading files in VB.NET

[Person]

I just thought this could be useful, downloading files using the System.Net namespace .

First of all you have to import the System.Net namespace

Imports System.Net

Then you need to declare a new instance of a WebClient class which will be used to download the data.

Dim webc As New WebClient

Now there are two ways you can download, download to a file, or download the data as bytes.
THis is how you would download a file and as bytes:

Dim data() As Bytes = webc.DownloadData("http://www.tech-forums.net")

This will download the HTML of the main page of the forums. But to the HTML in lets say a textbox you need to translate to a string like this:

Dim stringdata As String = System.Text.Encoding.Ascii.GetString(data)

Then you can assign it to lets say a textbox to display the html.

Other way is to download things to a file:

webc.DownloadFile("http://www.tech-forums.net", "C:\techforumshtml.html")

First argument is the address of the file and then the path at which to save it.

I hope this is useful to someone .

[Themodem]

excelent, just what i was looking for

[Iron_Cross]

And the C# version

just thought this could be useful, downloading files using the System.Net namespace .

First of all you have to import the System.Net namespace

using System.Net;

Then you need to declare a new instance of a WebClient class which will be used to download the data.

WebClient webc = new WebClient();

Now there are two ways you can download, download to a file, or download the data as bytes.
THis is how you would download a file and as bytes:

byte[] data = webc.DownloadData("http://www.tech-forums.net");

This will download the HTML of the main page of the forums. But to the HTML in lets say a textbox you need to translate to a string like this:

string stringdata = System.Text.Encoding.Ascii.GetString(data);

Then you can assign it to lets say a textbox to display the html.

Other way is to download things to a file:

webc.DownloadFile("http://www.tech-forums.net", "C:\techforumshtml.html");

First argument is the address of the file and then the path at which to save it.

I hope this is useful to someone .