Yes, the Internet is accessible with Visual Basic. The articles I publish here will describe how to do it. The first example is a simple blocking finger client. Later, I will expand on it to show how to do the same thing with asynchronous calls. Another example I will be working on is an SMTP e-mail sender.
Client programs are fun and easy since someone else has already written the server portion.
But sometimes there is no server available for what you want to do. For an NT system at work, I needed to be able to start a program from another machine. While I'm sure there ware other ways to solve it, I decided to write a server program which receives a program name and executes it using the Shell function. If you have questions or comments on this site, please send e-mail . These routines work well in those environments.