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    • How-to Playback Movies/Videos in VB and Visual Basic .NET

    Sunday, July 6th, 2008

          As you will see, playback of movies and/or videos of various formats is fairly easy to do. As you may have already guessed this article will be using the Windows MCI Command interface for the playback which is supported on all of the modern Windows OS including Windows XP and Windows Vista. [...]

    How to Open/Close the CDRom/DVDRom Tray Door (Updated!)

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

          Opening or closing the compact disks door tray in any Visual Basic and Visual Basic.NET language is easy to do thanks to the Windows API. This article will actually be using code based on the MCISendString Api which I made a complete tutorial on how to use. Click this link to check it out.  These codes are [...]

    Easily Play/Pause/Resume/Stop MP3/Wav/WMA files

    Thursday, August 30th, 2007

      There are many paths you can take. 3rd Party librarys, Windows Media Player component, Windows API and more. The answer i'm going to give is using the already established Windows APIs.   The APIs are connected to the Windows Multi-Media System. Or winmm.dll. This multi-media system is installed on every modern Windows OS. So, [...]