O.K. here is what i need. I am writing a program it is called Auctioneer it is a program that makes selling and buying on auctions a ton easier but i want a feature that i do not know how to do in .net i want to be able to send instant messages to other people who have my program running and i want to be able to tell when my "buddies" are online. stuff like that. basically it is going to be and extra feature that lets you IM people from the Auctioneer software. BUT!!! I do not know how to do it with VB .Net actually i do not know how to do it period. But i want it! I need to know how to do this if anyone could help me out! Thanks a lot!