Need to implement Novell's "Send" function in a VB.net program.

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Hi all,

I need to use the Netware "send" function to send messages to some/all
attached netware users on a server. However, I can't find any documentation
on this topic on the Novell site or anywhere else. If any of you has
experience on this topic (or knows of any online documentation about it) I
would realy appreciate your help.
(Which references do I set? Which class to instatiate? What methods do I
need to call, ...)

Thanks in advance,

Romain Voes
 
I need to use the Netware "send" function to send messages to some/all
Has anyoone ever actually done coding with Groupwise/Novell and vb.net? I
would love links or communication on this subject.

I have found GW/Novell highly resistant to coding (one reason I like it for
my company's email but it is a pain to work with sometimes.)

I know that process.start is not an automatic to bring a groupwise email up.
It wants you to then establish a profile and such. I have not found any
Novell COM components out there.
 
Send.exe is indeed a commandline tool, but it is too limited for my use. So
I wanted to use something more like "nwsndmsg.exe" which is gui driven and
therefore can't be called from a shell. So I was hoping that there were some
other resources from Novell for example to be included in my vb.net
solution.
 
Here is what I'd look at for what it is worth:

- Using System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys to send keytrokes to the GUI
app. This is a bit kludgy, hard to test, hard to maintain when the GUI
changes on you.

- Look for a COM/ActiveX library. Perhaps ActiveX Controls for Novell
Services (http://developer.novell.com/ndk/doc.htm) has a control you
can use. Then you can reference the control from your vb.net project
and

- Look for a C/C++ API which you might be able to P/Invoke.

Sorry, but I haven't kept up on Novell for many years and I'm not sure
what they offer these days to developers.

HTH,
 
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