I'm trying to write a program in Visual Basic that will let me display websites using the System.Net.WebRequest. I don't want to use WebBrowser. I need help on using this to send web requests and retrieving the web page.
Also, how can I authenticate via a website using visual basic

Using Visual Basic to perform web tasks
webber123456
So you want to read a page using the WebRequest class
So you need to:
1) create a request for loading/access that site (url)
2) get the response for that request
3) get the response stream and read it.
an example:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest.aspx
hope it helps!