After many years I have returned my hand at some programming... daunting....

Using Visual Studio 2012 and trying to write a vb application to run on windows phone WP8 - as I want to move off the iPhone back to WP but there is one program that currently does not exist for WP that I can't live without - so I might as well write it myself...

I need to interface to my sinology nas, and it has an API which I am following... it tells me that the first call to the api should be something like this;

http://myds.com:5000/webapi/query.cg...hod=query&quer y=SYNO.API.Auth,SYNO.DownloadStation.Task