volume shadow copy service meets VB.net

hi everyone,

in my on the job training i need to develop a program (webinterface in later stage) that is able to work with the volume shadow copy service.

after about a month of research i have found about nothing about how to program it using the sdk or something like that.

so now im asking on forums if there is anyone who has experience with using it in own programs.

so what does it have to do?

first i would like to be able to get information about a volume that uses VSS. information like how many copy's were made, when were those copy's created. what files are included in the copy.

my prefered langauge is C# but im not affraid to learn (more) about VB or C++

can anyone be of help to me?
anything is welcome...
thanx to all