Access to internet with VB Express Edition

[Tosco]

I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
VB2005.
The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
pages and parse the content.
Is there a better way with VB2005?
Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
ligher way.

Thanks,
Stefano

[Tosco]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

I think that this page would help me, but I'm not able to find the
example.
How can I download the mentioned files?

Tosco wrote:

I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
VB2005.
The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
pages and parse the content.
Is there a better way with VB2005?
Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
ligher way.
>
Thanks,
Stefano

[Ralph]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition


"Tosco" <stefano.menci@ gmail.comwrote in message
news:1167619335 .824861.252060@ a3g2000cwd.goog legroups.com...

I think that this page would help me, but I'm not able to find the
example.
How can I download the mentioned files?
>
Tosco wrote:

I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
VB2005.
The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
pages and parse the content.
Is there a better way with VB2005?
Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
ligher way.

Thanks,
Stefano

>

--
<response type="generic" language="VB.Ne t">
This newsgroup is for users of Visual Basic version 6.0
and earlier and not the misleadingly named VB.Net
or VB 200x. Solutions, and often even the questions,
for one platform will be meaningless in the other.
When VB.Net was released Microsoft created new newsgroups
devoted to the new platform so that neither group of
developers need wade through the clutter of unrelated
topics. Look for newsgroups with the words "dotnet",
"framework" , or "vsnet" in their name.

For the news.microsoft. com news server try these:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.genera l
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb.upgrade
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb.controls
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.windowsform s.controls
microsoft.publi c.vsnet.general
microsoft.publi c.vstudio.gener al
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.aspnet....
</response>

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

Ralph,

In VB6 and VB.Net 2002/2003 was the interop AXWebbrowser used.
In VB.Net 2005 is integrated the Net Class Webbrowser.

Be aware that it are still interops to Interenet Explorer. The webbrowser
class has a little bit less events as the AXWebbrowser, however it has more
properties to manipulate the document.

One problem I have is that you cannot do anymore download complete, however
Herfried has put in this newsgroup nice code to overcome that.

Cor



"Ralph" <nt_consulting6 4@yahoo.comschr eef in bericht
news:b9adnTfZL7 Ah5AXYnZ2dnUVZ_ vShnZ2d@arkansa s.net...

>
"Tosco" <stefano.menci@ gmail.comwrote in message
news:1167619335 .824861.252060@ a3g2000cwd.goog legroups.com...

>I think that this page would help me, but I'm not able to find the
>example.
>How can I download the mentioned files?
>>
>Tosco wrote:

I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
VB2005.
The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
pages and parse the content.
Is there a better way with VB2005?
Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
ligher way.
>
Thanks,
Stefano

>>

>
--
<response type="generic" language="VB.Ne t">
This newsgroup is for users of Visual Basic version 6.0
and earlier and not the misleadingly named VB.Net
or VB 200x. Solutions, and often even the questions,
for one platform will be meaningless in the other.
When VB.Net was released Microsoft created new newsgroups
devoted to the new platform so that neither group of
developers need wade through the clutter of unrelated
topics. Look for newsgroups with the words "dotnet",
"framework" , or "vsnet" in their name.
>
For the news.microsoft. com news server try these:
>
news://msnews.microsoft.com/
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.genera l
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb.upgrade
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb.controls
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.windowsform s.controls
microsoft.publi c.vsnet.general
microsoft.publi c.vstudio.gener al
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.aspnet....
</response>
>
>

[RobinS]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition


"Ralph" <nt_consulting6 4@yahoo.comwrot e in message
news:b9adnTfZL7 Ah5AXYnZ2dnUVZ_ vShnZ2d@arkansa s.net...

>
"Tosco" <stefano.menci@ gmail.comwrote in message
news:1167619335 .824861.252060@ a3g2000cwd.goog legroups.com...

>I think that this page would help me, but I'm not able to find the
>example.
>How can I download the mentioned files?
>>
>Tosco wrote:

I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
VB2005.
The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access
some
pages and parse the content.
Is there a better way with VB2005?
Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but
since
I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there
is a
ligher way.
>
Thanks,
Stefano

>>

>
--
<response type="generic" language="VB.Ne t">
This newsgroup is for users of Visual Basic version 6.0
and earlier and not the misleadingly named VB.Net
or VB 200x. Solutions, and often even the questions,
for one platform will be meaningless in the other.
When VB.Net was released Microsoft created new newsgroups
devoted to the new platform so that neither group of
developers need wade through the clutter of unrelated
topics. Look for newsgroups with the words "dotnet",
"framework" , or "vsnet" in their name.
>
For the news.microsoft. com news server try these:
>
news://msnews.microsoft.com/
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.genera l
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb.upgrade
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb.controls
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.windowsform s.controls
microsoft.publi c.vsnet.general
microsoft.publi c.vstudio.gener al
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.aspnet....
</response>
>
>

Ralph -- he posted it to both groups -- both .Net and VB6andUnder.

Robin S.

[mayayana]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to

VB2005.
The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
pages and parse the content.
Is there a better way with VB2005?

You can find a much lighter way here:

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/vbcode.php3#htp

It uses the Windows Winsock library wsock32 to
fetch via http on Win95 and up with no dependencies.
I have no idea whether it works on VB.Net. If you want a
specifically-VB.Net answer then don't post it to
a VB newsgroup.

Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
ligher way.
>

If you're "upgrading" to VB.Net then why worry
about bloat and "memory leaks"? You're going
to be saddled with 70 MB of runtime being loaded.
You can't do that a "lighter way", so there's not
much point being concerned about relatively minor
sloppiness like loading a whole instance of IE just to
download a webpage.

[Jeff Johnson]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition


"RobinS" <RobinS@NoSpam. yah.nonewrote in message
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Ralph -- he posted it to both groups -- both .Net and VB6andUnder.

Then the proper response would be "please do not crosspost to both .NET and
non-.NET newsgroups."

[RobinS]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition


"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.s pamwrote in message
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"RobinS" <RobinS@NoSpam. yah.nonewrote in message
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>

>Ralph -- he posted it to both groups -- both .Net and VB6andUnder.

>
Then the proper response would be "please do not crosspost to both
.NET and non-.NET newsgroups."

Well, he was talking about moving something from VB6 to VB.Net, so
I could understand why he cross-posted it. He was probably hoping
that someone who had moved from VB6 to .Net could help, although
why he thinks they would be lurking in the VB6 newsgroup is a
mystery. At least he cross-posted it instead of multi-posting it.

Robin S.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstname @planet.nlschri eb:

In VB6 and VB.Net 2002/2003 was the interop AXWebbrowser used.

Well, as VB6 was actually COM-based, no "interop" was required ;-).
However, you are right, .NET 2.0 comes with a wrapper around the original
classes which simplifies its usage.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Ralph]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition


"mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@m indXXspring.com wrote in message
news:Fufmh.9647 $X72.5992@newsr ead3.news.pas.e arthlink.net...

I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
VB2005.
The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
pages and parse the content.
Is there a better way with VB2005?

>
>
You can find a much lighter way here:

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/vbcode.php3#htp

>
It uses the Windows Winsock library wsock32 to
fetch via http on Win95 and up with no dependencies.
I have no idea whether it works on VB.Net. If you want a
specifically-VB.Net answer then don't post it to
a VB newsgroup.
>

Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
ligher way.

>
If you're "upgrading" to VB.Net then why worry
about bloat and "memory leaks"? You're going
to be saddled with 70 MB of runtime being loaded.
You can't do that a "lighter way", so there's not
much point being concerned about relatively minor
sloppiness like loading a whole instance of IE just to
download a webpage.
>

LOL

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

Robin,

I have tried to avoid these discussions by just removing the link to the
general vb newsgroup.

Maybe is the counterpart that Jeff and others cannot see my answer and the
addition on that from Herfried.

Therefore for those who thinks this question is still open. It is answered
for VB.Net.

Ralph had already given a message about the use of newsgroups, I saw no
reason to repeat that.

Cor

[Tom Shelton]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

On 2007-01-01, Tosco <stefano.menci@ gmail.comwrote:

I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
VB2005.
The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
pages and parse the content.
Is there a better way with VB2005?
Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
ligher way.
>
>

I didn't see it mentioned (but I could be worng), but there most certainly is
a lighter way then using the WebBrowser control. Especially, since I believe
I saw further down the thread that these files were not going to be displayed.
The answer lies in System.Net.WebC lient. There is an VB.NET example in the
help files for this class. If you need more specific help, please feel free
to post again.

--
Tom Shelton

[RobinS]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

Got it. Thanks for clarifying that for me, Cor.

Robin S.
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"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstname @planet.nlwrote in message
news:eUgwPEjLHH A.3560@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl...

Robin,
>
I have tried to avoid these discussions by just removing the link to
the general vb newsgroup.
>
Maybe is the counterpart that Jeff and others cannot see my answer and
the addition on that from Herfried.
>
Therefore for those who thinks this question is still open. It is
answered for VB.Net.
>
Ralph had already given a message about the use of newsgroups, I saw
no reason to repeat that.
>
Cor
>

[Bob O`Bob]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

Tom Shelton wrote:

On 2007-01-01, Tosco <stefano.menci@ gmail.comwrote:
>

>I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
>VB2005.
>The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
>pages and parse the content.
>Is there a better way with VB2005?
>Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
>I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
>ligher way.
>>
>>
>>

>
I didn't see it mentioned (but I could be worng), but there most certainly is
a lighter way then using the WebBrowser control. Especially, since I believe
I saw further down the thread that these files were not going to be displayed.
The answer lies in System.Net.WebC lient. There is an VB.NET example in the
help files for this class. If you need more specific help, please feel free
to post again.
>
>

But NOT to the NON-DOTNET newsgroups.



Bob
MS MVP, VB 2000-2006
--

[Tom Shelton]

Re: Access to internet with VB Express Edition

On 2007-01-03, Bob O`Bob <filterbob@yaho ogroups.comwrot e:

Tom Shelton wrote:

>On 2007-01-01, Tosco <stefano.menci@ gmail.comwrote:
>>

>>I'm new to VB.net and I want to upgrade an application from VB6 to
>>VB2005.
>>The VB6 application uses an invisible WebBrowser control to access some
>>pages and parse the content.
>>Is there a better way with VB2005?
>>Nothing wrong with the WebBrowser (besides the memory leaks), but since
>>I don't need to show any web page content I was wondering if there is a
>>ligher way.
>>>
>>>
>>>

>>
>I didn't see it mentioned (but I could be worng), but there most certainly is
>a lighter way then using the WebBrowser control. Especially, since I believe
>I saw further down the thread that these files were not going to be displayed.
>The answer lies in System.Net.WebC lient. There is an VB.NET example in the
>help files for this class. If you need more specific help, please feel free
>to post again.
>>
>>

>
But NOT to the NON-DOTNET newsgroups.

I apologize - I meant to set the followups to the .net group. I will try not
to let it happen again.

--
Tom Shelton