This tutorial will teach you how to login in gaiaonline through vb.net.
I'll do it with a way that you don't need to leave vb.net to get/post (bad joke) anything.

What you need in this tutorial is:

• Download and extract the Resources.rar file (i'll use 'c:\resources' in this project)
• This tutorial

Now let's start
Open the VS.NET and create a new project:

You now have something, that is called a form, let's rename it to GaiaLogin

Easy, let's take a look at the form

What?? Form1? But i renamed it...
Ok, if you really said that just close this window right now.
That's the title of the form, let's rename it

• Click on the form (anywhere)
• On the properties locate 'Text' and change 'form1' to 'GaiaOnline'

Ok, now we are talking.
Let's insert 1 textbox on the form (see example for details)

Yes, simple as drag and drop, but i want this textbox to be multiline and to have a vertival scroll. (easier to see what you'll get from teh website)
So, the way that i'm going to do this is to select the textbox and go to properties (like we did to change the form1 title to GaiaOnline) and select "multiline -> true" and "Scroolbars -> Both" (yes, i changed my mind)
Now just resize the textbox, mine is like this:

ok, all set.
Did you extract the Resources.rar?
Let's use it.

• Save your project
• Copy the c:\recources\SleepModule.vb and c:\recources\Stuff.vb and c:\recources\wrapper.* to your project path (mine is C:\vb.net\GaiaLogin\GaiaLogin\)

All set?
Let's move then.
Go back to your project.
Let's add the references


Ok, it was easy.
Now we need to insert them on the project.
You should have a tab that says "Object Browser", if you don't have it press "F2"

Ok, as shown in the picture, you select the Object to insert and click on the small button that is focused in the image.
Do this to AxInterop.* and Interop.*

Now let's add the modules to the project, select the gaionline project and follow the pictures.


Press add and let's move to the code (press 2 times on the form):
you should see this

Now, let's make some changes to the code:
After

Add

like this


Ok, we are ready to go.
Let's see what gaia online has for us
after this

add

and press F5
What did you got?
Your first error
The reason for that is that you shouldn't trust me as much as you think, you'll get some errors during this tutorials (come on, it's part of the job)
Note, you need to stop the script before continue (to do this you have a play and a stop button in a bar, yes press the stop one)
To solve this problem let's replace the above code with

That's it, the slash
So, now press F5

Wow, what is that?
Yes, it's a little bit confusing, but it's easier to get what we want.
Let's take a look to the code in that textbox.

Done?

What i found interesting was this:

let's give it a try
Close the window.
In the code replace

with

and run the script again (F5)
hmm, interesting.
It's shorter

let's see what info the next page will show.
after

add

and press F5 again
Hmm, bigger again. But look what i found in the code

I have new mail, interesting, let's see if i can read it through vb (note that i am logged already)
so the link to my private messages is?
I'll let you answer this one.
Let's keep going with the code.
I want to read my messages now.
after

I'll add

and press F5 again
And yes, after a while i found this

Wow, ok, i'm not going to show you that message now that we are logged.
I just want to finish this.
Let's move to the design again.
But first, take a look at the code that is parsed to the html, you should notice that you have one thing different that show us that we are logged.
Did you find it?
Good, let's move then
Remove that stupid textbox1.
Create something similar to this

Ok, what you should know by now is how to set a name to a textbox or to a button (in the properties), so let's use our capabilities, i named the button as Loggin, the first textbox as username and the second as password.
Let's move to the code (press 2 times on the form)
Hmm, i forgot, you want to login using the button ( see the errors are coming to us )
Ok, let's go back to the form, now, instead of clicking 2 times on the form, let's do the same on the button.
Good, you should see a new thing on the code


haha, let's move it.
Add this to the login button

that's it, press F5, insert your data and try now.
Easy hein? What?
Nothing showed up?
Damn, i forgot again, the thing we need to know that we are logged is "Gold:"
Let's see.
add this code to the button

Press F5 and insert your data

Hehe, cool... OK goo lu... What?
You want to know the amount of gold in the account?
But that's a new function... OK ok, calm down.
It's also easy
Let's change the if thing.
After the "If instr(strhtml, "Gold") Then"
Let's add

The iB, is the function in between, if you had look to the code you would see that the amount of gold is between Gold: </span> and <, and that's what we want. Run the program.

HEHE, we did it.
Now it's done, (donate i'm poor )
Now good luck at your code.