July,

I know how it is when don't have good documentation, Here are a few sites that might be helpful for you:

http://www.vbworld.com/

They have some good beginning tutorials on COM, and ActiveX, definately worth taking a look at.

http://www.vbip.com

Good place to go for learning about Winsock and creating Client/Server type applications.

http://www.mvps.org/vbnet

VBNet has a nice code library, and is a good place to go when you wanna play with API

http://www.vbsquare.com/

Another VB Site with beginning tutorials, they are very similiar to VBWorld, and have some beginning articles on Vb Objects, etc

Simon Templer