I have a VB6 application that uses the web browser control to navigate to various websites, login, and report back to the user text from some of the resulting pages.
I want to move the application to VB.NET and fix the problem that the performance of the web browsers is very poor. Question: is there a way in VB.NET to open a webpage, login, and read data from the HTML without using the web browser control and hopefully perform that process as fast as possible? (Also, does anyone have any sample code or apps that do this on a basic level?) I assume with respect to the above, there must be some way to open the right ports and read the HTML stream directly without using the web browser control. If that is true, then it leads me to my next question... Question: is it possible to take the HTML stream directly from the internet and load it into an MSHTML.HTMLDocument obect (or something similar) for easier processing and parsing of the HTML? Thanks so much for your help on this. - Ron
