> I need to be able to burn a CD from VB.NET.  The OS is XP so I don't care
> how it does it, but not having to go through the wizard of course--and free.
>
> I have searched and found XPBurn, but couldn't see a way to place a volume
> label on the CD.
>
> Here's exactly what I want to do:
>
> 1.) Run a program that generates a GUID product ID for the CD (I have this
> part)
> 2.) Set the label of the new CD
> 3.) Burn the application files and the ID to the CD
>
> If there is a way I can monitor when the CD drive is open or closed, etc.
> That would be nice.  I need to burn 100 CD's like this and just being a
> matter of opening the CD, sticking in a CD-R or RW and closing it--then the
> software (which would already be running with a preset (#to burn) would
> start burning again with no other user interaction.

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>
> SStory wrote:
>> I need to be able to burn a CD from VB.NET.  The OS is XP so I don't care
>> how it does it, but not having to go through the wizard of course--and
>> free.
>>
>> I have searched and found XPBurn, but couldn't see a way to place a
>> volume
>> label on the CD.
>>
>> Here's exactly what I want to do:
>>
>> 1.) Run a program that generates a GUID product ID for the CD (I have
>> this
>> part)
>> 2.) Set the label of the new CD
>> 3.) Burn the application files and the ID to the CD
>>
>> If there is a way I can monitor when the CD drive is open or closed, etc.
>> That would be nice.  I need to burn 100 CD's like this and just being a
>> matter of opening the CD, sticking in a CD-R or RW and closing it--then
>> the
>> software (which would already be running with a preset (#to burn) would
>> start burning again with no other user interaction.
>
> I use CopyToCD to do this with VB. It isn't free, but it is cheap, and
> you can download a trial version.
>
> www.copytocd.com
>

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>
> SStory wrote:
>> Do you have the SDK?  If so can you do each of the things I mentioned
>> with
>> it?
>> I have a normal CD burner program that will make copy after copy. I was
>> wanting to better automate the process and I burn a unique ID on each CD.
>
> According to their documentation, you have to convince them that you
> will be selling a product that includes their SDK code and guarentee a
> minimum number of sales before they will send you a copy of the SDK.
> Since I am using for my own personal use, I took their command line
> version and wrote my own SDK.
>
> You can do exactly what you ask using VB and their command line
> version. The only thing you cannot do is detect if the CD tray is in or
> out, but you can control CopyToCD to tell to either eject the tray
> after burning or not eject the tray.
>

>
> I have already found software XPBURN that will let me do a simple add files
> and burn, but I want to put a label on it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shane
>
> <za***@construction-imaging.com> wrote in message
> news:1154703278.568739.292250@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > SStory wrote:
> >> Do you have the SDK?  If so can you do each of the things I mentioned
> >> with
> >> it?
> >> I have a normal CD burner program that will make copy after copy. I was
> >> wanting to better automate the process and I burn a unique ID on each CD.
> >
> > According to their documentation, you have to convince them that you
> > will be selling a product that includes their SDK code and guarentee a
> > minimum number of sales before they will send you a copy of the SDK.
> > Since I am using for my own personal use, I took their command line
> > version and wrote my own SDK.
> >
> > You can do exactly what you ask using VB and their command line
> > version. The only thing you cannot do is detect if the CD tray is in or
> > out, but you can control CopyToCD to tell to either eject the tray
> > after burning or not eject the tray.
> >

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> SStory wrote:
>> Thanks for the input!
>>
>> But, can you set the volume label?
>
> Yes, the command line version of CopyToCD has a command switch to
> specify the volume label. I use it all the time.
>
>>
>> I have already found software XPBURN that will let me do a simple add
>> files
>> and burn, but I want to put a label on it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Shane
>>
>> <za***@construction-imaging.com> wrote in message
>> news:1154703278.568739.292250@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> >
>> > SStory wrote:
>> >> Do you have the SDK?  If so can you do each of the things I mentioned
>> >> with
>> >> it?
>> >> I have a normal CD burner program that will make copy after copy. I
>> >> was
>> >> wanting to better automate the process and I burn a unique ID on each
>> >> CD.
>> >
>> > According to their documentation, you have to convince them that you
>> > will be selling a product that includes their SDK code and guarentee a
>> > minimum number of sales before they will send you a copy of the SDK.
>> > Since I am using for my own personal use, I took their command line
>> > version and wrote my own SDK.
>> >
>> > You can do exactly what you ask using VB and their command line
>> > version. The only thing you cannot do is detect if the CD tray is in or
>> > out, but you can control CopyToCD to tell to either eject the tray
>> > after burning or not eject the tray.
>> >
>