If you are looking for a browser control - that allows users to browse web pages within your application - There is the .Net version of it - System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.
Alternatively, If you want to navigate directly to a website, System.Net.WebClient is an option you can explore. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient(VS.80).aspx Using this, I don't think it is possible to Login to a website though Kaarthik http://coding-passion.blogspot.com On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Ron B. <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Kaarthik, http://coding-passion.blogspot.com
