Reading webpage contents as a string in Windows Phone 7.

Hello all….

I am new to Windows Phone 7. So I am starting by posting a simple tutorial Here.

In this post I will try to read a webpage contents as a string and show it in a MessageBox.

Here is the complete code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using System.IO;
 
namespace PhoneApp1
{
    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
    {        
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            RequestAsync( new Uri("http://google.com"), (html, exc) =>
             {
                 if (exc == null)
                 {
                     Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(() => MessageBox.Show(html));
                 }
                 else
                 {
                     // handle exception appropriately
                 }
             });
        }
 
        public static void RequestAsync(Uri url, Action<string, Exception> callback)
        {
            if (callback == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("callback");
            }
 
            try
            {
                var req = WebRequest.CreateHttp(url);
 
                AsyncCallback getTheResponse = ar =>
                {
                    try
                    {
                        string responseString;
 
                        var request = (HttpWebRequest)ar.AsyncState;
 
                        using (var resp = (HttpWebResponse)request.EndGetResponse(ar))
                        {
                            using (var streamResponse = resp.GetResponseStream())
                            {
                                using (var streamRead = new StreamReader(streamResponse))
                                {
                                    responseString = streamRead.ReadToEnd();
                                    Console.WriteLine(responseString);
                                }
                            }
                        }
 
                        callback(responseString, null);
                    }
                    catch (Exception ex)
                    {
                        callback(null, ex);
                    }
                };
 
                req.BeginGetResponse(getTheResponse, req);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                callback(null, ex);
            }
        }
    }
}

Reading webpage contents as a string in Windows Phone 7.

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