You may wish to display the contents of a feed from another website or grab data from another website and perform some processing on this information and then redisplay on your own site.

The easiest way i have found to generate a word document from website content is to use the feature of word to read in HTML documents and display as a normal word document.

You should have your image stored in the "myimage" variable, and then use the below code to convert to a .Png format and save into the "mybytearray" array.

The binary array "mybytearray" should contain your image data, then use the below code to convert this into an image usable by VB.Net.

To read the entire contents of a file first we must open the file and specify the access mode by using the System.IO namespace. This class also allows various file operations such as delete, copy, and checking for the existance of a file.

Writing to a file works very similarly to when reading a file. The filestream is created passing the details of the filename and type of access.

Emailing with .net is fairly simple. You will also need to know an SMTP mailserver which you have permission to relay from, otherwise you will recieve an error 550.

Connecting to a microsoft sql database is done by first creating the database on your server and assigning the correct username and password. Once this is done then create your connection string. This will look something like this:

You may wish to hide or display a certain area of your website when the user clicks on a mouse. To do this first you need to create your area which will be hidden to begin with, and then later displayed using the javascript.