so im totaly bumed right now lmfaao cuss I tried and i failed hard to get proxys to work with my latest apps! could someone point me in the right direction or show me an example code for vb .net and poxys? pretty much i want to view webpages behind a proxy or send emails behind a proxy who ever could help me with this sure would be the cats pajamas lmfao 
Public Structure Struct_INTERNET_PROXY_INFO
Public dwAccessType As Integer
Public proxy As IntPtr
Public proxyBypass As IntPtr
End Structure
#Region "Proxy"
' The Windows API function that allows us to manipulate
' IE settings programmatically.
Private Declare Auto Function InternetSetOption Lib "wininet.dll" _
(ByVal hInternet As IntPtr, ByVal dwOption As Integer, ByVal lpBuffer As IntPtr, _
ByVal lpdwBufferLength As Integer) As Boolean
' The function we will be using to set the proxy settings.
Private Sub RefreshIESettings(ByVal strProxy As String)
Const INTERNET_OPTION_PROXY As Integer = 38
Const INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY As Integer = 3
Dim struct_IPI As Struct_INTERNET_PROXY_INFO
' Filling in structure
struct_IPI.dwAccessType = INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY
struct_IPI.proxy = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(strProxy)
struct_IPI.proxyBypass = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi("local")
' Allocating memory
Dim intptrStruct As IntPtr = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(struct_IPI))
' Converting structure to IntPtr
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.StructureToPtr(struct_IPI, intptrStruct, True)
Dim iReturn As Boolean = InternetSetOption(IntPtr.Zero, INTERNET_OPTION_PROXY, intptrStruct, System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(struct_IPI))
End Sub
#End Region
RefreshIESettings(Proxy Here)