Hoping this will help my fellow community members who are working to build VB apps to work with Zoho Desk.
I will attach code as I get each portion to work and hoping others will post theirs as well.
So, the first thing I was able to do was pop a messagebox confirming my instance likes my consumed ZOHO auth key. The messagebox pops with RESULT=TRUE
Imports System.Net
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim serviceRequest As WebClient = New WebClient()
Dim response As String = serviceRequest.DownloadString(New Uri(url))
Dim toindex As Integer = response.IndexOf("RESULT=")
Dim fromindex As Integer = response.IndexOf("TICKET=")
Dim length As Integer = toindex - fromindex - 8
Dim ticketid As String = response.Substring(fromindex + 7, length)
MessageBox.Show(response)
End Sub
End Class