Is there any object or function in ASP.NET which could fetch me the source code of the page from its URL?

If you mean to get the source code for any URL you could possible think of, no, you cant do that. (Not to mention you would be violating the IP rights of the site owner.) If you mean to get the source code of any file you have locally, then that is just a script that will read through the filesystem which isn't to hard.

**By IP I mean Intellectual Property not Internet Protocol
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If you mean the output HTML of a url, sure you can do that. You can use the WebRequest class to make a web request to any URL and retrieve the resulting HTML response. This is commonly referred to as "screen scraping".

-Peter

Screen scraping must be using source code to render the corresponding html, then isn't there any way to get the source in txt format, I mean in a string variable?

Mmmk. YOu need to be clear on what you want.

If you want the contents of a .cs or .vb file (or any server side code that may be included in a .aspx file) there is no way for you to get this code since every request you make to a particular URL will cause IIS to process the file.

If all you want is the resulting output of a given URL, as Peter said, you can use WebRequest to make a request to a given URL and then the Response stream that comes back you can place into a string variable eventually.

hth.

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Thank you both! My problem has been solved...:)