Visual Basic

The intent here is to pull information off the web so that it can be used elsewhere in your application. You do not need to see the web pages from within your application you just want to extract the target information and then be able to use it. After you pull the data from the web, create a webpage to display the information extracted.

Specific Details: Create an application which does the following

Dont crash, Color on form other than gray, Option Strict on (5 pts)

Incorporate both a Splash Screen and an About box. The splash screen should display at startup, while the About Box is displayed based on user input (i.e., button click) (10 pts)

Add your name in the Copyright section of the Startup Screen (5 pts)

Add some appropriate Description (not gibberish) that will show up in the About Box. (5 pts)

You will need some sort of button to pull up and display the About box.

Have a button that when pressed will pull in the current weather information in Columbia. You should list three weather related data such as the temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, and weather conditions (i.e., sunny, cloudy, rainy, thunderstorms, etc.) (15 pts)

Allow the user to enter a stock ticker symbol, and pull in the current stock price for that stock. (10 pts)

If the user input is not recognized as a valid ticker symbol, the program should display a message to the user. (10 pts)

Add comments in your code. Need comments at the top of all subs & functions, and immediately before IF statements, and Looping blocks. (10)

Allow the user to click a button to create a web page that displays the information collected. You should have (30 pts)

an H1 tag with your name at the top of the report

short description of what the user is looking at and how it was created. This should be a paragraph.

An H2 tag that indicates Columbia Weather

Some text giving the current information extracted from the weather web page

Another H2 tag indicating Stock Prices

Some text giving the stock ticker, the price and the time the information was collected. You can use the Now() function to determine the current time.

I want you to put the CSS inside the HTML file. That is dont use an external style sheet. Have at least 5 css styles you use on the page (could be related to color, font size or anything else). (10 pts)