Check for content on a web page?

[me]

Hi all,

Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do the following in VB.NET?

Basically, I want a procedure that will take a web URL and a string as
parameters, e.g. www.microsoft.com and 'Bill Gates'

I want the procedure to pull that page from the web, check for the existence
of 'Bill Gates' and return either true or false depending on whether or not
the string can be found.

Help appreciated :)

[Karl E. Peterson]

Re: Check for content on a web page?

me wrote:[color=blue]
> Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do the following in VB.NET?[/color]

Undoubtedly, but you posted to Classic VB groups.

Try finding one with ".dotnet." in its name for best results.

Meanwhile...
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[me]

Re: Check for content on a web page?


"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@mvps.or g> wrote in message
news:ejtkVn7FGH A.3100@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> me wrote:[color=green]
>> Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do the following in VB.NET?[/color]
>
> Undoubtedly, but you posted to Classic VB groups.
>
> Try finding one with ".dotnet." in its name for best results.
>
> Meanwhile...
> --
> Be the 10,000th Signer!
> http://classicvb.org
>[/color]

Thanks and apologies! Posted to the correct group now :)
Sorry, I was looking for newsgroups with .net and vb in and found nothing.

[Karl E. Peterson]

Re: Check for content on a web page?

me wrote:[color=blue]
> "Karl E. Peterson" <karl@mvps.or g> wrote in message
> news:ejtkVn7FGH A.3100@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> me wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do the following in
>>> VB.NET?[/color]
>>
>> Undoubtedly, but you posted to Classic VB groups.
>>
>> Try finding one with ".dotnet." in its name for best results.[/color]
>
> Thanks and apologies! Posted to the correct group now :)
> Sorry, I was looking for newsgroups with .net and vb in and found
> nothing.[/color]

Yeah, Microsoft did it's damnedest to confuse the entire market with that
one! Succeeded in more cases than many of us would've ever imagined.
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