How to open a website using vb6.0 or vb.net

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Mar 7, 2010, 9:31:47 PM3/7/10

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Good Day,

I'm new to visual basic. I just want to create a program that will check my
desired website every 30 mins. Can someone teach me how. I have a vb6.0 and
vb.net 2003. Thanks much

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Mar 7, 2010, 9:33:37 PM3/7/10

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shadow-monster wrote:
>Good Day,
>
>I'm new to visual basic. I just want to create a program that will check my
>desired website every 30 mins. Can someone teach me how. I have a vb6.0 and
>vb.net 2003. Thanks much

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Mar 8, 2010, 12:12:17 AM3/8/10

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Visual Basic 6.0 isn't, in any way, going to help you do anything relating
to .NET code.

What do you mean by "check" your desired website? What, exactly do you want
to do?

-Scott

Andy O'Neill

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Mar 8, 2010, 5:10:04 AM3/8/10

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Do you realise that there are free versions of vs available?
visual studio express 2008 is very likely a way better option than vs pro
2003.

When you say check.
What exactly do you have in mind.
There are free rss readers might do what you want.

Mark Rae [MVP]

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Mar 8, 2010, 6:22:18 AM3/8/10

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> I'm new to Visual Basic. I just want to create a program that will check

> my
> desired website every 30 mins. Can someone teach me how. I have a vb6.0
> and
> vb.net 2003.

Microsoft terminated all support for VB 6.0 almost two years ago, and
mainstream support for VB.NET 2003 nearly 18 months ago. Both of these
products can be considered completely obsolete. As has already been
mentioned, if you really want to continue with Basic rather than C#, there
is a free version available: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/

As has also been mentioned, you will need to provide (much) more information
about what you mean by "check my website". I'm assuming that you don't mean
that you want to check that the webserver on which your site is running is
still up and responding to web requests, as any decent web host will already
provide that sort of "heartbeat" monitoring and notify you accordingly.

Do you mean e.g. that you want to check your website for new sales?

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sloan

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Mar 8, 2010, 8:57:45 AM3/8/10

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My opinion #1 Don't use VB6. Take your VB6 CD's and throw them in the
Trash.

My opinion #2 Get a free version of VB.NET Express Edition. 2008 would be
the preferred version (in my opinion), VS2010 is just around the corner.
(Not sure about the Express Editions of 2010 at this point).

You can look at this concept (since you're original post was somewhat
deficient of details)
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=How+to+Screen+Scrape+VB.NET&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&fp=3d121c88310e67e3

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Ralph

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Mar 8, 2010, 2:51:21 PM3/8/10

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"shadow-monster via DotNetMonster.com" <u58543@uwe> wrote in message
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You really need to explain what you mean by check.

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Mar 9, 2010, 4:47:34 AM3/9/10

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>> Good Day,
>>
>Thank you very much for your help. I used vb.net 2003 in my program. I just trigger the website that I want by using process.start and create a 30 mins timer so that I can check my website every 30 mins. I love to create a program like hyperterminal can someone help me, can we use layman's term cause I'm really new to vb.net. My friend told me to use 2003 cause the vb.net 2005 up need atleast dotnet framework 2.0. :)

Mark Rae [MVP]

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> I used vb.net 2003 in my program.

Yes, you mentioned. And everyone is telling you to use that VB.NET 2003 is
no longer supported.

> I just trigger the website that I want by using process.start and create a
> 30 mins timer so that I can check my website
> every 30 mins.

I appreciate that English isn't your first language but, once again, you are
not explaining what you mean by "check my website"! What are you checking?

> I love to create a program like hyperterminal can someone help me, can we
> use layman's term cause I'm really new to vb.net.

Firstly, if you're really new to VB.NET, I would strongly urge you to forget
about it completely and learn C# instead.
Buy this:
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Microsoft-Visual-2008-Guides/dp/047019135X/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268145310&sr=1-10
and work your way through it from beginning to end.

> My friend told me to use 2003 cause the vb.net 2005 up need at least
> dotnet framework 2.0. :)

That's correct. And the latest versions use .NET Framework 3.5 - what's the
problem...?

Scott M.

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Mar 9, 2010, 12:30:59 PM3/9/10

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>> My friend told me to use 2003 cause the vb.net 2005 up need at least
>> dotnet framework 2.0. :)
>
> That's correct. And the latest versions use .NET Framework 3.5 - what's
> the problem...?

And on April 12, the new version 4.0 will be officially out. Since the
Framework is free and you can get the newest version of the Express Editions
of Visual Studio for free as well, why not use the newest versions?

-Scott

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Mar 19, 2010, 2:47:28 AM3/19/10

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I don't use the newer version of dotnet because I also have to install have
to include atleast dotnetfx2.0 or higher version.

But thanks for your advice I'll try to use the new version anyway.

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