WebRequest()

[Thecodont]

Hi all,

I was hoping that someone would be able to point toward some resources so I can learn about the WebRequest function.

I am new to VB and wrote a small app that I wanted to allow the user to enter their zip code and have it grab the current weather information from the web.

If anyone knows where I can get some clear, simple explanations of how to use this function, it would be greatly appreciated

 

[cjard]

here's a reusable notion:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...LG,GGLG:2006-25,GGLG:en&q=webrequest+tutorial

 

[Blake81]

I wrote an application to do this awhile back. Actually it was the first VB app I ever did. I parsed an XML document online to get the weather, since one of the sources I found provided the functionality of using zip codes and XML was a pretty good method. I don't know if you'd consider doing it that way, or if you just want to do this to learn WebRequest.

 

[Thecodont]

Yes, what you described is exactly what I was looking to do. I checked your link but did not see anything but your inital post on the subject.

Since I am a total newb to VB I was looking for sort of a walk through of the code used to do such a thing and help understanding how it works. I want to ultimatly write the code myself but to see how someone else did it along with an explanation of what each line does would help tons.

 

[Blake81]

I'll see about commenting the code in the project where I did this and I'll post it back here when I'm finished.

I'm not sure which link you're referring to, Cjard's link to a google search or maybe the link in my signature, which doesn't link to how I did this project. If you search for "XML" in this forum, you'll probably find alot of my posts asking questions when I was working on the app.