Visual Basic

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GET /some/dotnet/file.aspx HTTP/1.1

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I'm largely language agnostic

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After a while they all bug me

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    Public Function GetWebPageResult(ByVal webPG As String) As String<br />
        Dim myHttpWebRequest As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(webPG), HttpWebRequest)<br />
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        Dim myHttpWebResponse As HttpWebResponse = CType(myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)<br />
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        Dim receiveStream As Stream = myHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()<br />
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        Dim encode As System.Text.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8")<br />
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        Dim readStream As New StreamReader(receiveStream, encode)<br />
        GetWebPageResult = readStream.ReadToEnd() ' Use this 'readStream' where ever you want.<br />
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    End Function

Luc Pattyn wrote:

IMO you should Close both the WebResponse and the Stream inside your function.

evilnoodle wrote:

How do I get my app to display a console window?

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        Dim ps1 As New System.Diagnostics.Process<br />
        ps1.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal<br />
        ps1.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = False<br />
        ps1.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False<br />
        ps1.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe"<br />
        ps1.Start()<br />

public static String MemoryStreamToString(MemoryStream p_ms)
{
  return MemoryStreamToString(p_ms, Encoding.Default);
}
public static String MemoryStreamToString(MemoryStream p_ms, Encoding p_encoding)
{
  return ByteArrayToString(p_ms.GetBuffer(), p_encoding);
}

public static MemoryStream StringToMemoryStream(String p_string)
{
  return StringToMemoryStream(p_string, Encoding.Default);
}
public static MemoryStream StringToMemoryStream(String p_string, Encoding p_encoding)
{
  return new MemoryStream(StringToByteArray(p_string, p_encoding));
}

public static Byte[] StringToByteArray(string p_str)
{
  return StringToByteArray(p_str, Encoding.Default);
}
public static Byte[] StringToByteArray(string p_str, Encoding p_encoding)
{
  return p_encoding.GetBytes(p_str);
}

public static string ByteArrayToString(byte[] p_byteArray)
{
 return ByteArrayToString(p_byteArray, Encoding.Default);
}
public static string ByteArrayToString(byte[] p_byteArray, Encoding p_encoding)
{
 int numberOfBytes = p_byteArray.Length;
 return p_encoding.GetString(p_byteArray, 0, numberOfBytes);
}

<code>
if instr("read the help or google it","google") > 0 then

    Success = true

else

    PutSomeEffortInBeforePostingOnAForum = true

end if

if InStrReverse exists then

    LookItUp = true

else

    StopWastingOtherPeoplesTime = true

end if
</code>