newbie needs help, basic mfc stuff

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hello. Sorry for the long post. My ultimate goal is to make a program that can read text off a website, if told the url, when to start reading, and where to stop, and then write the text to a textfile. This is all easy once I am able to read the source code of the html doc given its url. Sooooo... I found this code from Planet Source Code, it claims to be able to read source code of a given url. A couple people responded to it, one person said they couldnt get it to work, another person said it worked great, so I think it probably works. But I am in the camp that cannot get it to work. I make a normal win32 app and in properties i select Use Shared MFC dll. This makes the CString opperations work but the other ones such as CInternetSession do not work, they give me errors of CInternetSession undeclared identifier. I remembered to put in #include so i dont understand what is wrong. Can someone please help a newbie??? Here is the code:

//************************************** // #include //************************************** // // Name: ^!!~ A better HTML Source Grabb // er/Stealer ~!!^ // Description:Simple example of how to // grab(some people like ti call it 'steal' // ) the HTML source of a page from a appli // cation... There are a couple of examples // here at PSC, but they are not very good // because they use ReadHuge to store all o // f the data in a buffer which can cause m // emory problems, incomplete page sources, // and of course ugly boxes due to no carri // age returns or line breaks... This ReadS // tring version is alot more efficent... I // t works 100% in MFC... And since this co // de is so easy to implement into virtuall // y any project, I am NOT going to post th // e project files unless I get alot of req // uests // By: Zak Farrington // // Assumes:Make sure to define m_strURL // and m_strSource via ClassWizard // //This code is copyrighted and has// limited warranties.Please see http:// // www.Planet-Source-Code.com/vb/scripts/Sh // owCode.asp?txtCodeId=7754&lngWId=3//for details.//************************************** //

//** Make sure you add two edit boxes to // your dialog, make the one for the URL in // put a CString named 'm_strURL' //** And to store the source add another // edit box(Make sure its multi line), make // it a CString named 'm_strSource'

void CYourDialogClass::OnYourEvent() { UpdateData(TRUE); //** Perform DDX and get user input CInternetSession session; //** define our internet session CInternetFile* pFile = (CInternetFile *)session.OpenURL(m_strURL); //** define our internet file that will hold the source if(pFile) //** If we can OpenURL(m_strURL)

{ CString string; //** Create a buffer string while (pFile->ReadString(string) != NULL) //** Read as many string as we can until we run into EOF(End Of File)

{ m_strSource += string; //** Add the string of data we just read m_strSource += "\r\n"; //** Add a line break to make it look better } } UpdateData(FALSE); }

edit to add: I am using microsoft visual c++ .net

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I fixed it by making a new project, still a win32 app, and made it a console project (which is what I normally do) and selected Add MFC support, (which I had done before) and then also clicked Add ATL support.

Can someone explain why adding ATL support made the afxinet class work?

I also had to delete the UpdateData lines. Those didnt make sense anyway.