[Request] How To Add Live News Feed From Website To Your VB Launcher?

[CimSlunt]

If someone could please help me achieve this i would be very grateful.

[maclone]

Webbrowser element?

[kazama]

First make a website page ex. YouSite.com/news.html then make a small layout, where your news are, Remember the news layout have to be a page only with news!
Then in VB make a form and add the webbrowser element, and set it to start up on http://www.YouSite.com/news.html or whatever you have you news.
Make sure you news layout are the same site as the webbrowser form.

Hopes that hep

[ReidE96]

Put a news.txt on your server, each line holding a news item. Stream the news file, load the lines into an array, and you can use them however you like on your form. I know others have said HTML, but this way doesn't require internet explorer installed on the target machine.

[kazama]

Hmm good point, with my way you need IE...

[visitor]

or you can download the html without IE too:

        Dim z As New System.Net.WebClient
        Dim whatnot As String
        whatnot = z.DownloadString("url")

to check its not IE:

Me.Text = z.Headers.Item(Net.HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent)

it will change the title to nothing so i think its not IE
and in the whatnot variable you get the source code. (im using vs08 idk if its works in prev versions)

[ReidE96]

viktor - you CAN do that, but it's a bitty harder to parse and display html than it is to parse/display plain text. It's the WebBrowser control that needs IE.

[visitor]

yes i know that, just said that it can be done that way too