accessing a web page through a program

Well, you can use WinSock. Just open a connection to the IP Address of the webserver over port 80 and send the following: "GET /page.html HTTP/1.0\n\n" (without the quotes of course).

I know in Visual C# 2005, there is a special "Web Browser" object that allows you to input the URL and it will handle everything. There is a free Beta version of this compiler at MSDN (I think it's still up anyway).

Hope that helped a little,
Walter

do you want to display the page or just rip some data from it?

Actually I've found the solution up to a point. I googled and came up with HttpWebRequest/Response (sound familiar from asp!). I think I only need to rip data from the page. The program will be for a friend. He hasn't provided me with much information yet, but I wanted to remember how I could get a web page. http://www.csharp-station.com/HowTo/HttpWebFetch.aspx has a good example.
In the initial conversation I had with my friend she stated that the problem was that from the site's main page, they clicked a link and it created some temporary page. So if they put the same url the next time nothing came up. So we have to do it by going through the main page and following the link.
My thinking right now is, get the main page, parse it, find the link, make a new request response and I think that would get me the web page we need. I'll post again probably tomorrow if I need further assistance, but if you think I should know something before hand feel free to post. Thanks for your help guys :)