Phone Dialer

[JT]

I may be at the totally wrong spot to ask this, but can
anyone point me in the direction of either a product or
some VB7 or VC# code for a component that would be able to
dial a phone number and perform some authentication tasks
with a bulletin board on the receiving end. I am trying
to facilitate automated health care claim posting, and
most payers still require log in to a phone dial-up
system. The HTTPS post is still in the future.
JT

[Tian Min Huang]

Hello,

Thanks for your post. As I understand, you want to create a Phone Dialer
program in .NET. Please correct me if there is any misunderstanding. I'd
like to share the following information with you:

1. Microsoft introduces a Telephony Application Programming Interface
(TAPI) which provides a way for applications to support telephone
communication. TAPI is shipped with Platform SDK can be installed at
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/...sdk/sdkupdate/.

If you have Platform SDK installed, there is a Phone Dialer sample which
can be found similar to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\Samples\netds\Tapi\Tapi2\Dialer

2. In .NET, you may need to call TAPI 2.0 which is a set of unmanaged APIs.

Consuming Unmanaged DLL Functions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/cpguide/htm
l/cpconconsumingunmanageddllfunctions.asp

BTW, in the future, it would be best to post TAPI questions in the
following newsgroup.
Microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tapi

Please feel free to let me know if you have any problems or concerns.

Have a nice day!

Regards,

HuangTM
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MCSE/MCSD

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[Dick Grier]

Hi,

I have VB example code for this sort of thing in my book. Porting it to VB
..NET would be straight-forward. See below. BTW, I do have VB .NET
examples -- but not ones that cover that specific territory, as I do with
the VB6 examples.

Dick

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Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)

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Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 3rd
Edition ISBN 1-890422-27-4 (391 pages) published February 2002.