http://msmvps.com/blogs/shahed/archive/2008/06/09/system-net-webclient-downloadstring-url-for-web-scrapeing.aspxWebRequest is the abstract base class for the .NET Framework's request/response model for accessing data from the Internet. To get content of a website, in .NET 1.0. we used to use WebRequest, which is good and also works asynchronously. public staticenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)