You can do it with two different controls in visual basic. You can try this code using the Microsoft Internet Transfer Control.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim response As Variant
response = Inet1.OpenURL("http://www.linuxbox.com")
Text1.Text = response
End Sub

Or, you can use the Winsock Control (which is a better way of doing it) vb-world.net has a sample on doing this in their tips area, the url is: http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip52.html, I hope this helps.

Ryan