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what is the purpose of this lines?<br />
instead of trying to convert the code to .net please explain what is it to be gained?
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what is the purpose of this lines?
instead of trying to convert the code to .net please explain what is it to be gained?

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I'd suggest the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">WebClient class</a>. It should handle SSL for you.
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I'd suggest the WebClient class [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.aspx]. It should handle SSL for you.

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Hello Experts<br />
<br />
I am trying to call an API and download some data, I have a PHP example which I am trying to follow and implement the same in VB.Net<br />
I have come across with the following statements in PHP which I am unable to figure out the equivalent in .net<br />
$ch=curl_init();<br />
&nbsp;curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);<br />
&nbsp;curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);<br />
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Please can someone advise what it is in .net term?<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Hello Experts

I am trying to call an API and download some data, I have a PHP example which I am trying to follow and implement the same in VB.Net
I have come across with the following statements in PHP which I am unable to figure out the equivalent in .net
$ch=curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

Please can someone advise what it is in .net term?

Thanks
N

php to vb.net or c#

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.

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,

Visual Basic.NET

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).