title: Using returned XML from an authorised HTTP request in vb.NET
body: <p>How can I use the returned XML from the reader in a xmltextreader?</p>
  
  <pre><code>            ' Create the web request  
          request = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create("https://mobilevikings.com/api/1.0/rest/mobilevikings/sim_balance.xml"), HttpWebRequest)
  
          ' Add authentication to request  
          request.Credentials = New NetworkCredential("username", "password")
  
          ' Get response  
          response = DirectCast(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
  
          ' Get the response stream into a reader  
          reader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,<br>
  Nathan.</p>