Question

I was trying to do something similar to the PHP command get_file_contents to get the market up a webpage, but it has to be in ASP.net. I wasnt sure if i could just open the webpage via file, and then just read the stream into another file.

One thought iw as thinking was: How to read an entire file to a string using C#? but i wasnt sure if that was the route i would be needing to go or if someone else knew something that would do what i wanted.

Looking for the answer to the following pseudocode:

$test = "www.google.com";
$string = get_file_contents($test);
$filePointer = fopen("sample.txt", "w+");
$filePointer.write($string);
fclose($filePointer);

Answer 1

string html;
using (var client = new WebClient())
{
    html = client.DownloadString("http://www.google.com");
}
Console.WriteLine(html);