Using Net Send from my application

[stever]

Let's say that I wanted to use the windows net send service in my
application... is that easy? I'm a newbie... I started looking into
Shell32.dll to execute a command, but I think I was barking up the wrong
tree.... where should I be looking to get this going?

TIA-

[Felix Wu(MS)]

Hi Stever,

You can use the NetMessageBufferSend API via PInvoke to implement Net Send
command for your application. You can try this:

[DllImport("netapi32.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Unicode)]
public static extern int NetMessageBufferSend( string serverName, string
msgName, string fromName, string buf, int bufLen)

enum NET_API_STATUS
{
NERR_Success = 0,
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED = 5,
ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER = 87,
ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED = 50,
NERR_NetworkError = 2136,
NERR_NameNotFound = 2273
//
// For a complete list, please check lmerr.h
//
}

Alternatively, you can use the "net send" command as the following example
application does:

Windows Messenger like GUI for net send command (By Sunil TG)
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetsenders.asp

It writes the "net send ..." commands into a .BAT file, and then execute
the BAT file with the Process class.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Felix Wu
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[Luis]

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMSPEC"),
String.Format("/c net send {0} \"{1}\"", target, msg));