Many years ago, around 1994, I created a Roll of Honour database by typing it into MSACCESS by hand from original documents I received from the SA Dept of Defence. I placed that data online in a website created for the process.
That website ran for many years until around 2017 when it got deleted by GoDaddy.
At some time while it was up the data was scraped, without permission, by the SA Wargraves Project. This is an attempt to scrape it back.
The process of writing this is also a re-learning experience for me. I haven't coded in VB.Net for many years, so I have to remember (using Google) how to do things, as well as research techniques to do other things.
The techniques that I've used so far include inter alia
- Finding Application data (Path etc)
- Getting data from webpages (HTMLClient, WebBrowser etc)
- Creating, reading and writing from an SQLite3 Database
- Searching the DOM of a HTML doc (HTMLAgilityPack)
- Substring techniques including "IndexOf"
- and various others
Mono is a whole different experience.