help in making this app!

[ahamednishadh]

hey there.

i need to make this small app for sum fella. its lyk this.

it shud be a desktop application. there r fields and stuff in the application and the values for the fields have to be fetched from a seperate file that is to be hosted in a web server as this seperate file will be updated regularly. and also da application shud have a function where it shud auto reload da contents from da external file and display it without the user having to close and reopen this.

is there n e way to do this?? da scene is i can use only Visual Basic, Java(which i dont know) or a flash AIR app.

n e body who can help me pls PM me k!

thanks in advance!

[digitaldjs]

hello i'm a c# programmer, i can help you. give me all details of your app if it wiil not take a lot of time i will build it for you.

[kosandpol]

You can do this with VB6 alone.

[ahamednishadh]

You can do this with VB6 alone.

ya but the thing is hw. can u jst tell me da basic structure of it??

[kosandpol]

ya but the thing is hw. can u jst tell me da basic structure of it??
you can use sockets to access the site and get the file, then read the values and display it.
Or use the IE control and download the file and then read it and load the values.

[ahamednishadh]

you can use sockets to access the site and get the file, then read the values and display it.
Or use the IE control and download the file and then read it and load the values.

hmm still dont get it man.:baffled: :baffled: :baffled:

got n e tutorials or sumthing??

[digitaldjs]

here is the basic if you need more info plz pm me:

'Coded by Kavinga Bilhan
System.IO.File.Create(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Base Directory & "\index.html")
Dim myClient As New System.Net.WebClient()
myClient.DownloadFile("http://google.com/index.html", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory & "\index.html")
Dim str As String = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(AppDomain.CurrentDomain .BaseDirectory & "\index.html")

[digitaldjs]

here is the basic if you need more info plz pm me:

'Coded by Kavinga Bilhan
System.IO.File.Create(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Base Directory & "\index.html")
Dim myClient As New System.Net.WebClient()
myClient.DownloadFile("http://google.com/index.html", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory & "\index.html")
Dim str As String = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(AppDomain.CurrentDomain .BaseDirectory & "\index.html")

i wrote this sample in c# and converted it to vb, if there are errors pm me