Imports System
Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO



Public Class Test
    
    Public Shared Sub Main(args() As String)
        If args Is Nothing OrElse args.Length = 0 Then
            Throw New ApplicationException("Specify the URI of the resource to retrieve.")
        End If
        Dim client As New WebClient()
        
        ' Add a user agent header in case the 
        ' requested URI contains a query.
        client.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)")
        
        Dim data As Stream = client.OpenRead(args(0))
        Dim reader As New StreamReader(data)
        Dim s As String = reader.ReadToEnd()
        Console.WriteLine(s)
        data.Close()
        reader.Close()
    End Sub 'Main
End Class 'Test

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

public class Test
{
    public static void Main (string[] args)
    {
        if (args == null || args.Length == 0)
        {
            throw new ApplicationException ("Specify the URI of the resource to retrieve.");
        }
        WebClient client = new WebClient ();

        // Add a user agent header in case the 
        // requested URI contains a query.

        client.Headers.Add ("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)");

        Stream data = client.OpenRead (args[0]);
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (data);
        string s = reader.ReadToEnd ();
        Console.WriteLine (s);
        data.Close ();
        reader.Close ();
    }
}

#using <System.dll>

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Net;
using namespace System::IO;
int main()
{
   array<String^>^args = Environment::GetCommandLineArgs();
   if ( args == nullptr || args->Length == 1 )
   {
      throw gcnew ApplicationException( "Specify the URI of the resource to retrieve." );
   }

   WebClient^ client = gcnew WebClient;
   
   // Add a user agent header in case the 
   // requested URI contains a query.
   client->Headers->Add( "user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)" );
   Stream^ data = client->OpenRead( args[ 1 ] );
   StreamReader^ reader = gcnew StreamReader( data );
   String^ s = reader->ReadToEnd();
   Console::WriteLine( s );
   data->Close();
   reader->Close();
}