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Old February 13th, 2008, 06:13 AM
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im making a program that reads a url from a text file on the internet then loads that url in the default web browser, i know the script for reading off a local computer but it doesnt work for the internet, help please
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just spent about 1-2 hours trying to sort it but its real confusing do i have to create a class for webclient and for stream? ive tryed copying the examples of the msdn site but they dont even work so i cant exactly edit them
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Dim wc As New System.Net.WebClient
Dim URL As String = wc.DownloadString("http://mysite.com/url.txt")
Process.Start(URL)
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thanks with web start its answered the question about how to open in wbe broswer aswell

just one small question, why cant i do say
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edit... i just realised it needs to be not in a sub for it to be shared for subs ... ty again..
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