Question

I want to get HTML code to be displayed in a RichTextBox. I am using the code

WebClient client = new WebClient();
byte[] data = client.DownloadData("http://www.google.com");
richTextBox1.Text = data.ToString();

How can I do this?

Also: I don’t know why but this shows me “System.Byte[]” on the RichTextBox.

Answer 1

It shows System.Byte[] Because it is show the description of data, not data‘s contents. to do this do something like:

        WebClient client = new WebClient();
        byte[] file = client.DownloadData("example.com");

        File.WriteAllBytes(@"example.txt", file);

        string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines("example.txt");

        richTextBox1.Text = lines;

To see the actual content

EDIT

Or you can do WebClient.DownloadString like @Ria Suggested. Only I would implement it like this:

WebClient client = new WebClient();
var data = client.DownloadString("example.com");
richTextBox1.Text = data.ToString();

Or to be more efficient even

richTextBox1.Text = client.DownloadString("example.com");