Question

I need to make an application in which a vb.net application takes in a XML file from a url and display it in my program. An example of a place to get a url would be http://www.example.com/yx3234.xml then take the contents of this and read it into my program.

Answer 1

Use Linq XML. You can pass the uri to XDocument.Load() method.

Dim doc As XDocument
doc = XDocument.Load("http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8842115/sample.xml")
For Each node In doc.Descendants("first")
  Console.WriteLine(CType(node.Element("no"), String))
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