Connecting to net

[Darren66]

I am a newbie to VB.net and have been reading manuals but would appreciate it if somebody could point me in the right direction.

I want to click a button and connect to the internet if not already connected - something which I achieved in VB6 with wininet.dll.

 

Is there a better way of doing this now in .net??

[Darren66]

Or let me rephrase that : It seems to me that InternetConnect API Works in VB6 but not VB .NET

Any suggestions?

[divil]

Can you paste your declare for that API in VB.NET?

[Darren66]

I ran this code through the upgrade wizard from VB6 to VB.net and this was the result. I noticed that the data types have been changed from Longs to Integers however I changed tried changing them back to Longs with no success.

The first piece of code is from my form and is the line which attempts to make the connection.

 

<code>

hConnection = InternetConnect(hOpen, "ftp.mysite.com", INTERNET_INVALID_PORT_NUMBER, "user", "password", INTERNET_SERVICE_FTP, dwSeman, 0)

</code>

 

<code>

Public Declare Function InternetConnect Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetConnectA" _

(ByVal hInternetSession As Integer, ByVal sServerName As String, ByVal nServerPort As Short, ByVal sUsername As String, ByVal sPassword As String, ByVal lService As Integer, ByVal lFlags As Integer, ByVal lContext As Integer) As Integer

 

Public Declare Function InternetCloseHandle Lib "wininet.dll" _

(ByVal hInet As Integer) As Integer

 

Public Declare Function InternetOpen Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetOpenA" _

(ByVal sAgent As String, ByVal lAccessType As Integer, ByVal sProxyName As String, ByVal sProxyBypass As String, ByVal lFlags As Integer) As Integer

</code>

[Darren66]

Divil

Typically I think I've just managaed to get it working although at this point I'm not quite sure how. I hope I haven't wasted your time.

Many Thanks.