Automation of accessing a site and retreiving details

[Blacky]

Hi,

I need to automate the following process using windows scheduller.It has to run every eight hours in a day.

I have to access a site(abc.com) which can be connected through vpn.
I have a name, quantity, start date , end date as search criteria and a button in the site(abc.com) .With the quantity which is a fixed value as 50 and start date as fixed say (02/01/2010) and end date it should take as todays date. And the button click will display the grid details. And if quantity exceeds 50 i need to send mail to <email removed as per site rules>

this entire process need to be automated.
is there anyway of automating this with the input values for the search n triggering search button automatically n sending mail to the id. Is there any tools to automate this process

reply asap...

Thanks in advance

[Frinavale]

It sounds like you are more interested in building a Windows Service than an ASP.NET application.

The MSDN Library has multiple articles on Windows Services. This library is a very powerful resource and I recommend that you use it whenever you are developing anything in .NET. Please bookmark the library so that you can reference it any time.

Here are a couple of articles (found in the MSDN library) on the topic:
Introduction to Windows Service Applications
Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Service Application in the Component Designer

-Frinny