Web Interaction

Different types of web interaction

How to download data, files, images, pages etc

There are several different ways you can download content from the web using http

• WebClient - Basic method and uses simple GET requests

• HTTPWebRequest - Advanced method

Advantages of using WebClient

• The results data is returned on your UI thread.

httplistener ??

My.Computer.DownloadFile

Provides a shortcut if you want to quickly download a file.

Web Services

refer to dedicated chapter

Launching a Web Page

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://www.bettersolutions.com")

You can re-enable ASP.NET debugging on the Projects property pages of the Debugging page.