calling a web page in windows forms

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I have a Windows Form. I also have a login in a website. From windows forms, I need to login to the web site and be able to run a report and fetch the results to the windows forms. Is there any possibility? Please advise.

Posted 25-Jul-14 8:23am

Dinesh.V.Kumar

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[no name] 25-Jul-14 14:27pm

Advise what? Have you actually tried anything? There is a handy dandy web browser control you can use. You could also use the WebClient class.

Christian Amado 25-Jul-14 15:18pm

And you could be more friendly.

[no name] 25-Jul-14 15:57pm

Maybe but I don't see how unless you think that we need to spoon feed people.

Christian Amado 25-Jul-14 15:19pm

Dinesh, you can search for a web browser control in your ToolBox inside Winform project.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Jul-14 16:50pm

There is no such concept, "call a Web page". Explain what exactly you want to achieve and what did you try, then we will be able to help you.
—SA

Dinesh.V.Kumar 26-Jul-14 23:20pm

Thanks for taking some time and replying to my query..Sorry that I was not very clear in framing the question. I will try to provide more details.
I have a windows forms and a login credentials to a website. I can login to the website and run a report. In windows forms I have a form. On clicking the button on the form, I need to internally login to the website, run the report and fetch the result of the report and display it on the windows form. I know there is a web browser control but as per the requirement I cannot use the control. Is there any way this scenario can be achieved?

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ChampTechnology.net · Answer 1 · 2014-07-27T15:15:00

Solution 1

You can use httpwebrequest or you can declare a webbrowser

<--example-->
dim browser as new webbrowser
browser.navigate("Your site")
<--end-->
This doesn't appear on your form.

I hope that gives you an idea.

Posted 27-Jul-14 15:15pm

ChampTechnology.net

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Dinesh.V.Kumar 28-Jul-14 1:32am

Thanks Champ!!For the idea.. I will take this path and see what happens..But is there any way to pass the user id and password to login to the site..?