Accessing website content in Windows Phone 7

I'm looking for how to a开发者_如何学Cccess information on a website from a Windows Phone 7 device, without opening a brower window. For example, if I had a website that provided a daily dictionary word and definition, how could I navigate to that word in my wp7 app without opening the whole page for display?

In a sense the app would be a page scraper, just looking for some of the data on a page.

I know how to open a web browser programmatically, but haven't been able to find out how to get a page's content without a browser window.

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You can pull http data down using WebClient (if trivial volume) or HttpWebRequest (better for UI thread responsiveness).

API's here for your reference.

HttpWebRequest Class (System.Net)

WebClient Class (System.Net)

A demo project showing both in use here.

WebClient, HttpWebRequest and the UI Thread on Windows Phone 7

You'll then need to parse the html you pull down to get out of it what you want.