On Thursday I developed a web service to get the New York Lotto numbers. My web service is getting the numbers from a RSS feed because it is easier to parse XML than it is to find data in HTML source code.<\/p>\n
I reused the code from my Stickam ASPX page which uses the HttpWebRequest class of the System.Net namespace to make a request to a web server and get the response. I had the same problem with extra characters appearing at the end of the XML making it invalid so I fixed the StreamReader problem. Instead of reading a fixed number of bytes I read an entire line:<\/p>\n
Dim strLine As String On Thursday I developed a web service to get the New York Lotto numbers. My web service is getting the numbers from a RSS feed because it is easier to parse XML than it is to find data in HTML … Continue reading
\nDim Reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
\nDim Writer As StringWriter = New StringWriter<\/p>\n
\nDo While Reader.Peek() >= 0
\n strLine = Reader.ReadLine()
\n Writer.WriteLine(strLine)
\nLoop
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"