Using a dropdown on a static webpage as a DataSource in C#.net

Question

I know this is a terrible way of doing things, but it's for an internal app where security is no issue.

Basically, an old group created a php page with a drop down and this drop down is populated with entries from a DB. The DB owner is currently absent and for the sake of time, I would just need something that turns the entries in that drop down, always at the same url with the same ID every load into a List. Is there a quick, painless way to do this in .NET?

Answer 1

It looks like your only option is to try and parse the html. While there is no great way to do this you can fetch the page with a WebRequest then try something like the HTMLAgilityPack to parse out your list.