Hi Gary,
By saying "navigate a website programmatically" do you mean you want to
create a robot to play with the page in IE? If so it's really a tough work.
If you only want to achieve this requirement you can use some third party
tools such as WatiN:
http://watin.sourceforge.net/index.html
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Quote from Gary==================================================
We haven't been able to find any "best practices" articles on this subject.
It seem there are several different approaches and different people know a
little bit about each one. Which way is best?
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It's not that easy to give you an answer as to which way is the best. I
think we'd better leave this topic open because each way deserves
investigation.
Please let me know if you made any progress on this issue.
Regards,
Allen Chen
Microsoft Online Support
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| Allen,
| Well, not exactly. What we are trying to do is navigate a website
| programmatically. Our research so far has turned up different methods...
|
| 1. Using the Webbrowser control with it's properties and methods
|
| 2. Creating an InternetExplorer application in memory as so ....
| Set uf1_cbutt1_click_ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
|
| With uf1_cbutt1_click_ie
| .navigate
| "
http://www.cfmu.eurocontrol.be/chmi_public/ciahome.jsp?serv1=ifpuvs"
| .Visible = True
|
| With .document.ifpuvs
| .arcid.Value = "A value here"
| .rules.Value = "Another value here etc etc"
| .cmd.Click
| End With
|
| End With
|
| 3. Using the XPath reader or the agility pack. (that reads but I don't
know
| if we can fill in fields and push buttons with it)
| 4. Creating WebClient, UTF8Encoding object - DownloadData method.
|
| We haven't been able to find any "best practices" articles on this
subject.
| It seem there are several different approaches and different people know
a
| little bit about each one. Which way is best?
| Thanks for following up,
| Gary
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| > | Anyone know of html screen scrapper software that will work with .net
| > | projects. We need to get data back from a gov site that only
provides
| > it
| > on
| > | a webpage.
| > | Thanks,
| > | Gary
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