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[ChaosOverLord]

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Auto-Updating News In VB.Net
Have you just wanted to show your app users the important urgent
news but dont know how?Well again heres your tutorial!

Add 1 label to the form

Lets get to the coding!

Put you imports in like this

Imports System.Net

Then add this in your variables

Dim web As New WebClient
Dim news As String = "LINK TO THE TXT FILE"

Add the link to the text file where you will have your news.

Then in form load use this

Try
Me.Label2.Text = Web.downloadstring(news)
Catch ex As Exception


End Try

Thanks for supporting me guys!This is the 4th of my tutorials!

[zachman61]

Very nice but this should be a snippet

[GoodGuy17]

Thanks! I just tested this, and it works great.

*whispers to self* Can't believe I thought this was going to be hard to do...

[zachman61]

Thanks! I just tested this, and it works great.

*whispers to self* Can't believe I thought this was going to be hard to do...

Me too lol lmao;

[zachman61]

I keep getting an exception after about an hour after of putting the code in.
it says
Invalid Characters in path.
The url is
http://bigmoneygamerzx.com/z61/status.txt

[Cheatmasterbw]

try adding "www.":

http://www.bigmoneygamerzx.com/z61/status.txt

[zachman61]

Tried didnt help at all :(

[mandai]

If you are using your own URL then the problem is either being caused by that, or its your web host.

[zachman61]

If you are using your own URL then it is either something in that or your web host that is causing the problem.

it was working before.
should i have it in the root directory?

[Agust1337]

I suggest you to use code tags... as you have been informed many times before