title: VB Chat Interface - Displaying Users
body: <p>I am new to Visual Basic and trying to get around in developing a good gui for a chat interface. I can understand the language as i have been using php and java from quite sometime. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Requirement</strong></p>
  
  <p>Basically i am trying to develop a interface which will show a list of users and along with that display a status (online/offline). My users will reside in mysql database. On clicking the user i want some actions to happen.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong></p>
  
  <p>I see there is datagrid, listview,listbox but not sure which one to use. Also is it a good idea to display the users by directly quering the mysql database or by accessing a php script which runs few queries and gives the data?</p>