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Downloader

by Brandon Benvie (3 Submissions)
Category: OLE/COM/DCOM/Active-X
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Intermediate
Date Added: Wed 3^rd February 2021
Rating: (8 Votes)

This is an example on how to download text/HTML from the internet without using an external OCX such as Winsock. It demonstrates some new features built into VB5/6 on how to do this. Also is fully commented.

Inputs
Text1.Text = Downloader1.DownloadText("http://www.theaddress.com/index.html") All you need to do is input the address of the file you want to download, and it will download it for you.
Code Returns
It returns in the function "DownloadText".

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