"Joseph Sheppard" <josephsheppard@"gee"mail.com> wrote in
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> We have a pesky dialog box that appears on our Ascent Capture server
> 50 times a day, bottle-necking our release process.
>
> While we wait for a corrected .dll to prevent this dialog, I would
> like to write a program that automatically answers it (the dialog has
> one choice only: VBOK).
>
> I remember reading a couple of years ago that .Net (hopefully vb.net)
> could do such a thing...If this is the case, I've been googling for
> the wrong terms, for twenty minutes of searching has led me to one
> shareware program, and no programming advice.

"Spam Catcher" <spamhoneypot@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> "Joseph Sheppard" <josephsheppard@"gee"mail.com> wrote in
> news:xIGdnQoG0IbZytfZnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@pgtc.com:
>
> > We have a pesky dialog box that appears on our Ascent Capture server
> > 50 times a day, bottle-necking our release process.
> >
> > While we wait for a corrected .dll to prevent this dialog, I would
> > like to write a program that automatically answers it (the dialog has
> > one choice only: VBOK).
> >
> > I remember reading a couple of years ago that .Net (hopefully vb.net)
> > could do such a thing...If this is the case, I've been googling for
> > the wrong terms, for twenty minutes of searching has led me to one
> > shareware program, and no programming advice.
>
>
> Definately possible - but you'll need to hook into Windows APIs.
>
> Take a look at SendMessageA & FindWindow functions.
>
> Another possiblity is to use .NET's SendKeys function - this lets you send
> keystrokes to the currently focused app.
>