Regex match pull href link and string in between [duplicate]

Answer 1

Don't use regex to parse HTML(as @hsz mentioned). See why: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags. Instead of it you could use HTML parser like HtmlAgilityPack for this:

var html = @"ToolStripItemOwnerCollectionUIAdapter.GetInsertingIndex Method ...";
HtmlDocument document = new HtmlDocument();
document.LoadHtml(html);

var link = document.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//a");
if (link != null)
{
    var href = link.Attributes["href"].Value;
    var innerText = link.InnerText;
}

Now href contains http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa538627.aspx; innerText (AKA the string between tags) contains ToolStripItemOwnerCollectionUIAdapter.GetInsertingIndex Method ....

Isn't it easier than regex?