Learning VB Programming/Making a Network Profile Manager

[mattfinch]

Ok, so I'm doing a computing A-Level, and part of that course involves learning a programming language. While you can learn the level needed for the course doing silly little apps to change strings around. I fancied writing something a little more useful.

My problem is that whenever students at my school bring their laptops from home, they have to change their proxy settings so that they can access the internet. I was thinking of writing a program that would automatically change the proxy settings based on the SSID of the network the computer is connected to.

Basically when they join the school network, the program changes the settings.

I'm told the best way to do this would be with a windows service and I know that the settings can be changed with the command line in windows.

Eventually I would like users to be able to add custom settings on a per SSID basis, using a simple interface window to write the settings to a config file, but that can come later.

So, any ideas?

[John the Gr8]

Title is very misleading, people will open this thread to post stuff like "VB is for 12-year-olds, use C#/Java/whatever"

[robmaister12]

[url]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/197725/programmatically-set-browser-proxy-settings-in-c[/url]

yeah, it's C#, but all those libraries are .NET libraries, they'll work in VB as well.

[url]http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/191571-windows7-current-ssid-signal-strength/[/url]

looks like you'll need to use an API to detect the SSID name.

It took about 5 minutes to find this all on google.