[dba-VB] Web page manipulation

If you know the final link to the file in question you can use that.

That's what I do with some of the click once stuff for prerequisites.





On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Drew Wutka <DWUTKA at marlow.com> wrote:

> No.  You asked if you can programmatically manipulate web pages to cause
> specific pages to open, etc.  The answer is yes.  You didn't ask how to
> do it! LOL
>
> I have done a few projects that do this.  The 'how' is both simple,
> complicated, easy, and a complete PITA.
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:45 PM
> To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Web page manipulation
>
> You must be a Microsoft employee eh?  ;)
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> On 12/10/2010 4:33 PM, Drew Wutka wrote:
> > Yes.
> >
> > Drew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> > Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:30 PM
> > To: VBA
> > Subject: [dba-VB] Web page manipulation
> >
> > My client has to go through a process where he clicks about 20 - 30
> > things to manage to get a file
> > downloaded.  It sounded totally convoluted but the question is (and I
> > have asked this before without
> > a usable response) can I programmatically manipulate web pages to
> cause
> > specific pages to open,
> > click buttons, input data into controls etc.
> >
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