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The answer provided was the one I needed. &nbsp;Thanks!
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The answer provided was the one I needed.  Thanks!

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&quot;<a href="http://ccms.ochsner.org/tempfiles/PROO688192010105509AM13688694V001_001.GIF" rel="ugc">http://ccms.ochsner.org/tempfiles/PROO688192010105509AM13688694V001_001.GIF</a>&quot;<br />
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Assuming the above is a valid URL, and is all the information I have about the file, how do I use VB.NET to convert it to a ByteArray?<br />
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Standard file handling code returns &quot;URI format is not supported&quot;.<br />
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Thanks in advance!
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"http://ccms.ochsner.org/tempfiles/PROO688192010105509AM13688694V001_001.GIF"

Assuming the above is a valid URL, and is all the information I have about the file, how do I use VB.NET to convert it to a ByteArray?

Standard file handling code returns "URI format is not supported".

Thanks in advance!

Converting a url to a bytearray

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,