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Published on 2010-05-07T14:43:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 14:48 UTC
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So, I've been saving a .txt file from a website and using...

My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText()

To put it into a string. But I figured it'd be more efficient to just grab it directly. How do I go about this?

Thank you.

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