Is it possible to easily get the text of a url to a string to show in say a messagebox. I tried this code but can't figure out how to return the results to a messagebox.

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Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim req As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("www.synonym.com/synonyms/house/")
        Dim res As System.Net.HttpWebResponse = req.GetResponse
        Dim sr As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream)
        MessageBox.Show(sr.ReadToEnd)
    End Sub

Basically I want to eventually just filter out the synonyms for the word HOUSE in a textbox or messagebox but can't seem to get any info to flow...sorry I'm such a noob

Posted 1-May-12 15:30pm

tgebrael

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-May-12 22:21pm

First of all, what it supposed to mean: "return... to a messagebox"? Now, what's the problem? Does the above code work?
--SA

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Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2012-05-01T22:08:00

That's still a long way to go:
- store sr.ReadToEnd in a string variable (that's the source code of the page),
- then set up a Regex for getting the part where the results are shown (they look like <div class="Accent Sense">Sense 1:</div>house<br /><span class="equals">accommodate, hold, admit</span>
- get all matches for that regex (may be more than one)
- then split the list of synonyms by a comma as separator
- clean the items up with a Trim