I have been given the responsibility to develop an application in c# that use an external webpage for some kind of data retrieval. The complete data retrieval process has 3 steps as follows.
First step: I need to open a webpage that displays the empty web from for entering a single string to be searched. It has a search button.
Second Step: Once filled, the form needs to be sent back to server for processing and sending the response data. This data is displayed in the Gridview control with a linkbutton named view.
Third Step: When I click on the view button it displays the complete required data in a modal pop up that needs to be stored in a database for further use.
During the development of this project, i have used html agility pack for parsing the html response and I am pretty sure that i can retrieve the data from the response send by the server.
Also I have used the WebClient class for accessing the provided URL andi am able to complete the first step as given above, but I am unable to complete the other two steps.
As i have made various efforts to make this application, Following are the details that the external web page is using.
The webpage is using updatepanel control to post data when clicked on the search button. The toolkit version used is 3.5 version. I can provide more details if anyone needs for helping me on this thing.
Please show me the right direction to complete the task.