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Site Update: 28 June 2004

Click for New: CD Ripping in VB Part 2

New: CD Ripping in VB Part 2

This sample provides a more sophisticated CD Ripper which is capable of writing MP3 files by adding the following:

  1. A plugin-based architecture for writing audio files.
  2. Implementing a WAV to MP3 encoder.

The audio plugins can be re-used wherever you want to be able to create audio files.

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Last Updated: 11 June 2004


Click for New: CD Ripping in VB Part 1

New: CD Ripping in VB Part 1

This sample looks at ripping CDs from VB using the CD ripping library provided with CDEx. In addition to providing a VB compatible wrapper around the CD ripping functions, it provides a buffered WAV file writer which can be reused for other applications such as audio recorders and processors.

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Last Updated: 11 June 2004


Type Library

New: VB IMAPI (CD Burning) Interfaces (IVBIMAPI.tlb)

This type library provides access to the various objects exposed in the Windows Image Mastering API (IMAPI). This API allows you to burn audio and data CD-R and CD-RW discs. Note that this API is only available on Windows XP and above.

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Last Updated: 10 June 2004


Click for New: vbAccelerator Ltd

New: vbAccelerator Ltd

vbAccelerator Ltd is a small London based software consultancy. As well as this website (and despite our name!) vbAccelerator also provides software design and development services for J2EE, .NET, VB and XML projects.

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Last Updated: 10 June 2004


New vbAccelerator Site.

Updated: Using the Site

Welcome to the vbAccelerator site. Here you can learn about the site's features, navigating the array of content and find out how the site was put together.

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Last Updated: 9 June 2004


Click for New: RDF Support at vbAccelerator.com

New: RDF Support at vbAccelerator.com

vbAccelerator pages now include support for RDF tags which describe meta-data and licensing conditions for the articles and code. This article describes the RDF tagging that's provided and some details of the implementation.

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Last Updated: 9 June 2004


Click for New: Contributors

New: Contributors

The software available on this site includes voluntary contributions made by many individuals. This article lists the main contributors and thanks them for their support.

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Last Updated: 9 June 2004


Click for New: Preventing Logoff or Shutdown

New: Preventing Logoff or Shutdown

Sometimes if an application is performing a long operation you do not want the user to log-off or shutdown the system until it is complete. An example is when burning a CD, as the CD burn will be terminated and the disc potentially ruined. This sample demonstrates how to respond to the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message to prevent this from occurring.

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Last Updated: 2 June 2004


Click for New: Mapping NT Device Names to Drive Letters and vice-versa

New: Mapping NT Device Names to Drive Letters and vice-versa

This tip demonstrates how you convert between MS-DOS style drive letters and NT-style device names. This can be useful if you're working with an API that exposes an NT device name, such as IMAPI for CD Burning.

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Last Updated: 2 June 2004


Click for New: StealthBot

New: StealthBot

StealthBot is an application that, erm, does something or other related to games. (I have to apologise for being such a lamer, but not having played that many games for the last few years I couldn't actually figure out what this is for...) In any case, it works with Starcraft, Warcraft III and Diablo II and uses a vbAccelerator TreeView control to get the much-needed black background and colours.

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Last Updated: 1 June 2004