Isaacariah

Hi there, I am a visual basic programmer and I am very interested in creating a bot. From the c++ and java examples around I have not been able to gather sufficient info to do this, and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction? Are these bots actual clients that connect to the zone server? Or do they work on top of the continuum client? If its the former, where can I get hold of some kind of RFC-like do!@#$%^&*ent of the different data sent/received? Thanks in advance Isaac