Im rather new to vb period ive been doing alot of reading and i am able to set up things as i want them, but i have no clue how to gather the information from the the click boxes or text boxes and send it to external application net-snmp and retrieve results. It is my understanding that visual basic can accomplish this task. The way i have it set up, the user enters information into the boxes that is necessary to complete the snmp poll, then they can use a button to get, getnext, walk, or set. I have tried several things, and nothing works. Any light anyone could shed on this. The main problem is assigning the info the user types in to a variable to be compiled with the other options and then the info sent to the external application and the results retrieved. Any help is greatly appreciated, I can make it worth anyones time who decides to help. All i need is a good push in the right direction and I can pretty much take it from there. Thank you in advance.