VB Progress Bar... Can it do what I want?

[Mastershake]

Hello
So, first off I'm using a VB 2008 and I'm trying to make a login pannel almost got that done. But I dont know how to do one thing. I need to make a progress bar check to see if a website is up and running and if it is green text comes up saying connected I would not be asking if I could find a way to do this.

[Atheist]

Welcome to the forums.
A ProgressBar in itself can only display progress.
If the web server isn't configured to ignore pings, you can use the My.Computer.Network.Ping method to ping the server.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Perhaps a simple marquee progress bar while pinging can indicate that something is happening.

[Mastershake]

Perhaps a simple marquee progress bar while pinging can indicate that something is happening.

Any idea how i would start that code?

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Well you would do the ping in a background thread.

Start the marquee, invoke a background worker to ping, and when the worker completes take appropriate action.