How to open and send data in a specific port in VB / 2005

Hi, in a previous article I had shown how to monitor & capture data on a specific port using VB. Mainly to allow my server send out notification to the clients, like a Caller ID Alert. That article can be found here How to monitor and capture data in a specific port in VB / 2005 [...]

How to monitor and capture data in a specific port in VB / 2005

In one of my  previous post I had shown how to capture the Caller Id info of a modem.  So what do I do this the information?? In my case I notify all the PC in the house a particular caller / number is ringing by sending data on a specific port.  So they know [...]

Software:Play WAV,MP3 and Playlists, from your program.

One of the cool things of the program is to be able to play sounds, and play other formats on-demand.  For this example we will play a chime clock at noon. There are a couple of ways of doing this (API Calls, command line etc), The way I will show is for me the simplest [...]