a bit over my head but I will try to get through it.

Connection strings are the same in other programs See below:
Dim constring As String = "Data Source=" + Server + ";Initial Catalog=" + _
                  database + ";Integrated Security...

Well they are of no help. They can't even understand what I want. I think they are Russian.

I am in contact with them but they are slow to reply and sometimes are not the best support. At least I am learning something about it. I had to...

I do have knowledge of vb but never did a webservice call

The Sales people put in figures and then it sums that figure along with probability. It is just 2 numbers that they calculate that I need to pull from that...