Hi Laurahn,
Based on my understanding, you're using standard Windows Fax Service and
planing to develop a WinForms application with VS 2005 to programmatically
fax a document. If I have misunderstood anything, please feel free to
reply
here.
You could use fax service API to send fax in your application. Here is the
starting point for the Fax APIs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fax/fax/fax
portal_9nol.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fax/fax/fax
about_5s8n.asp
First, there are no real samples in MSDN showing how to using the Fax
interfaces from a Managed language. The Fax documentation existed before
C# or VB.Net existed. However, using Fax from C# or VB.Net is very similar
to doing it from VB. You need to add a reference to the FaxComEx object
within the Visual Studio IDE and then reference the FAXCOMEXLib namespace.
Next, there are several programmatic interfaces to the Fax Service. There
is a "C" style API and two different COM interfaces. I strongly recommend
that you use FaxComEx, which is the most recent and by far the most robust
version. However, this is only supported on Windows XP and later. If you
must have support for Windows 2000, then you should investigate the FaxCom
interfaces. Here are some links that discuss the different options.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fax/fax/fax
about_18s3.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fax/fax/fax
about_699l.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fax/fax/fax
legacy_9lf4.asp
The following link provide a VB code example of sending a fax.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fax/fax/fax
using_27co.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fax/fax/fax
using_8dyw.asp
I think it might help more to introduce the following link to you, which
discusses "COM Interop from VB.NET".
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcn7/html/
vaconCOMInteroperability.asp
I also found some VB.NET and C# code samples as follows.
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1477361.php
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread273119.html
Hope this helps.
If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.
Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support
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