Screen scraping and creating Word documents with LINQ to XML
At TechEd Developers 2008 in Orlando, I had the pleasure of competing in Speaker Idol. In that competition, we had the opportunity to present a topic in 5 minutes. Unfortunately, the topic I choose really needed 10 minutes to cover at the level of detail it needed. Instead of limiting the topic, I decided to go ahead and present it a bit too fast.
If you want to see the video, or see how to use VB 9's XML Literals and LINQ to XML to fetch data from a web page (that must be XHtml compilant), manipulate it and insert it into a Word 2007 file, it is now available on the Developer Landing page, and the Library page. of the TechEd site. If you prefer, you can jump right to the video in either WMV or MP4 file formats. If you're not familiar with LINQ to XML, go ahead and download the video and just watch it at half speed ;-)