If you wanna do stuff with winsock and internet programming with Visual Basic this is the place where I got my feet dirty

www.vbip.com

You have to navigate a little bit but you should find it. Also sometimes it helps to look at others code, now don't rip off other peoples code but use it as an example that usually helps me out with stupid things like adding a splash screen.

www.vbcode.com
www.planetsourcecode.com