First of all. If I can code this it would be OK but if you know of a very good component that can do what I want I would rather buy one as I'm runnning out of time.

I want to have an interactive news section on my local VB App.

First of all I need to know if my end user is connected to the internet. I once purchased a component that checks that but only works if my end user is connected via his own modem, and not when he's connected via his LAN and/or Proxy.. That is the first thing I need to get right..

Then I need to connect to a database on my webserver and update my customers database. Almost like updating new viruses. But this will be with the latest industry news. So I will have a form in my app called News update. When the customer opens the form I want to read the latest updates from a table on my website....

How can I do this ???? Is this possible....

Thanks for all your help

Chris