Accessing a URL from C#

[Zach]

I would like to download bank account mutations from a internet banking
website from within a program transferring these mutations to the data file
of an accounting program. I have been searching the internet in vain for
some kind of shell command to do this. Could someone point me into the right
direction in order to achieve the downloading?

 

[Jeff Johnson]

I would like to download bank account mutations from a internet banking
website from within a program transferring these mutations to the data file
of an accounting program. I have been searching the internet in vain for
some kind of shell command to do this. Could someone point me into the
right direction in order to achieve the downloading?

Your question is vague, or rather, you seem to be asking multiple questions.
Are you asking:

A) How to download data? If so, look at the WebClient or
WebRequest/WebResponse classes.

B) How to work with bank transactions (and I assume you mean "transactions,"
not "mutations")? If so, it depends on what the bank will provide you and is
outside the scope of this group.

C) How to interface with your accounting program? Again, outside the scope
of this group unless it's something simple like writing to a database, in
which case it's probably on-topic.

 

[Zach]

I would like to download bank account mutations from a internet banking

Hi Jef,

Yes Jef, my query was rather vague, apologies, I ahall try again:

When I download transactions, for which my account at a certain bank has
mutated,
(1.) I select the the explorer provided by Microsoft
(2.) I use it to go the appropriate page of the appropriate website on the
Internet
(3.) I download the transaction data
(4.) I do sometging with the data that I have downloaded

I would like to do (1.) and (2.) from within a C# apllication.
I don't know how to do that. What I am asking, is the
direction in which to search for the answer.

 

[Zach]

On 3/29/11 8:45 AM, Zach wrote:

But you are at the moment a long way from being able to even start
thinking about writing any code.

Pete

Ok Pete, very clear. Many thanks. I will get onto the banks.
Thank you or your pleasant response. By the way the code
to process the downloaded data, for it to appear in the
accounting program, has been written and works well. It
is the inbetween bit that is missing, as you will have
understood. By the way the formats of the downloaded
data in this country sometimes differ per bank, and
one of the banks has been found to slip new records into
previous downloads. But those hicks and trics have been
dealt with. (Not all banks in this country use MT940.)

Reagards,
Zach.