Screen scraping a mainframe screen in C# *without* 3rd-party utilities

Question

I\'m looking to screen scrape a 3270 mainframe application in C#, but I\'ve got to do so without Attachmate or other 3rd party plugins. Are there free managed libraries to do so

Answer 1

Wow, back in the days we used SNA Server for stuff like this. To do all the jumps and hurdles around protocols you could leverage BizTalk Host Integration Server 2009 for this type of stuff. There is a defunt CodePlex project:

http://www.codeplex.com/Open3270 http://www.open3270.net/

But it's gone nowhere in 3 years.

The closes you may get is this:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/all_ehllapi.aspx