How to read XML from a URL

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I'm a Vb.net developer and I need to know how to read a web page that contains a XML format data.
in fact, i'm sending some data to a URL an it will response me in XML. I need to read it and I have no Idea how to do. I can read the XML files but not web pages.

I will appreciate you if you take me a quote how to do this.

Posted 7-Aug-11 22:25pm

vahid_gian

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Timberbird · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-07T22:40:00

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It depends on what are you going to use to access web site (BTW, title is a bit misleading - you are reading XML from a web site with a given URL :) ). See an article[^] on MSDN with an example of reading data from web with WebClient class - one of the possible ways.

Posted 7-Aug-11 22:40pm

Timberbird