Get the source of some website from asp.net code

Question

Is there any way that I could get the source of a website (as a string preferably), let\'s say www.google.com, from some c# code inside code behind of asp.net website?

Answer 1

Assuming you want to retrieve the html:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
        using (Stream stream = client.OpenRead("http://www.google.com"))
        using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
        {
            Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
        }
    }
}