Programming  »   Visual Basic 2008

I have been meaning to try and learn a bit of this for a while.
and i had an idea on what i can attempt to do first.

Well i have just made a website for a business (well a friend) and it has a photo gallery on it, now i could code an admin bit for the site to do all this but as i say i wanted to try my hand at this!. =]

So what i want it an upload photo section. (to start with).
So is this possible? a VB program to select a photo(s) on the computer and then upload it with a progress bar to a directory on a website. (the web server is linux).

So how would i go about doing this? or is it even possible?!.

Eventually i want to add a delete page as well so he can delete some photos.
and maybe a login page. so when the program starts you have to login, (again i would want the login info to be stored on the Mysql DB on the web server)

So really all im asking is. Is it possible?... to do all those features, upload/delete/connect to a mysql DB on a webserver.

And if so how would i go about doing this? / can some one point me to a website or some thing to help me get started.

As i say this will be my first VB project, and i know it would be easier to code it in php, but i want to try this as im thinking of doing a course later on in the year on it, and i want to get ahead lets say. and its hard thinking of projects to keep you interested in when your first starting out so im hoping this one will keep me gripped so i can see it to the end! =].

Any comments/suggestions/ideas welcome!

Rob