Accessing information on a website from an application running on a pocket pc

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Aditya Barve via .NET 247

Hi All,
I have a Microsoft Compact Framework application running on a pocket pc.What I want to do is from that application access information or rather pull information from a website. Is there anyways I could go about this?

Any pointers would be more than helpful.

Thanks and Regards,
Aditya
 
if its an HTML web site, then you have to do what is called screen scraping.
basically you request the web page, then use string mainpulation or regular
expressions to pull out the data.

the CF SDK has a web crawler sample that will have alot of code you will
need:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\CompactFrameworkSDK\v1.0.5000\Windows CE\Samples\VC#\Pocket
PC\WebCrawler

we should be moving away from screen scraping.
request that the web site expose web services,
and then you could call the WebMethods directly.

Thanks,
casey
http://www.brains-N-brawn.com
 
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