Archive for May, 2007

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

I have discovered an issue relevant to Premium edition upwards. One of my SB apps uses the Win API call FindWindow to check if an instance of the application is already running.  The FindWindow call takes two parameters a 'class' and the window caption you are looking for. If you're not sure of the class […]

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Just a few short notes to remind myself and anyone else how I got faxing working on vista. Firstly you must have Vista Business or Ultimate edition as they are the only Vista editions that ship with Windows Fax & Scan. To configure Outlook to treat emails with the recipient format as [FAX:0123123] as faxes […]

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Posting XML from Visual Basic 6 is pretty straightforward.  One would think.  But like many development tasks which you'd expect to take an hour or two, this one turned into a couple of days. First of all, How are you going to get the XML across the wire ?  To answer this the easiest method […]


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