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/// <summary>
/// method for retrieving information from a specified URL
/// using the new WebClient Class in .Net 2.0
/// </summary>
/// <param name="url">url to retrieve data from</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public string LoadeSiteContent(string url)
{
    //create a new WebClient object
    WebClient client = new WebClient();

    //create a byte array for holding the returned data
    byte[] html = client.DownloadData(url);

    //use the UTF8Encoding object to convert the byte
    //array into a string
    UTF8Encoding utf = new UTF8Encoding();

    //return the converted string
    return utf.GetString(html);
}