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try this sample:<br />
<a href="http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/UploadFile/bfarley/FileDownload04182005043858AM/FileDownload.aspx" rel="ugc">http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/UploadFile/bfarley/FileDownload04182005043858AM/FileDownload.aspx</a>
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try this sample:
http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/UploadFile/bfarley/FileDownload04182005043858AM/FileDownload.aspx [http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/UploadFile/bfarley/FileDownload04182005043858AM/FileDownload.aspx]

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I want to develop a visual basic application that can go to a website and download a file.<br />
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For example the I am going to get a link similiar to:<br />
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<a href="http://www.test.com/test.zip" rel="ugc">http://www.test.com/test.zip</a><br />
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I want the program with no user interaction go to the link above download the file save it, in a particuliar location, and extract the file to a seperate location. Any examples on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.
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I want to develop a visual basic application that can go to a website and download a file.

For example the I am going to get a link similiar to:

http://www.test.com/test.zip

I want the program with no user interaction go to the link above download the file save it, in a particuliar location, and extract the file to a seperate location. Any examples on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

vb.net download

Web applications are systems that run in browsers that perform functions normally associated with other client-based programs. One of the most commonly used web applications is email; instead of downloading individual emails to a local machine, the data is shown through a website. Other examples of web applications are collaborative systems like a wiki or an online game.

Web Applications

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,