Information from the Net

[Poornima K]

I want to connect to a particular site like a
stock exchange for the share value or want to get
the updates of currency value fromt the net ( for example, from Reuters ). For every regular period of time, my VB screen has to be updated.
Can anybody suggest me something about this.

Thanx in Advance
Poornima

[Lothar Haensler]

be careful: you are going to have copyright problems with that.
I developped a solution that was based on the Internet Transfer control.
Use the openUrl method to get the complete page in one string.
Then parse that string to find the stock rate information. That's the nasty part. No matter where you are going to get your info from, they WILL change the page layout and your parsing logic will break. I have experienced that many times.

There are also sites out there that have text-only downloadable information pages. These are easier to parse and faster to download.

Again, both approaches are not clean with regard to copyright.