You know, if we supported our clients like this, we would be out of business in a short time. So fair enough - I will tap our support contract and make a call for the simplest, stupidest question and once again mark yet another post on this just-about-useless site as 'answered' when it is not. Have read it, its no help - the most common answer on this site is that someone is posting in the wrong forum - and yet, SAP, Oracle, and most of our other vendors allow support volunteers themselves to move questions - Microsoft doesnt do that - why I have Is pure idiocy - but for your info, we DO have one, I just thought with the simplicity of the question, someone up here would have the answer.Īs for thousands of forums and 'where is the forum for'? You are suggesting that I spend what, an entire week posting in thousands of places hoping I will hit the right forum? The 'where is the forum for' baloney is just about useless . So the sense of paying for a support contract We have had four support calls to Microsoft in less than a year and ALL FOUR were MS bugs - we didnt have to pay for any of them and in fact, we were doing the QA work clearly MS doesnt do very well anymore. I am not looking for 'free service', I am looking for Microsoft to #1, document properly what they produce - they dont, and #2 to support what they produce without a fee when its either bugged or a simple question that So, How does on play a simple AVI file using VB.NET code? What DLL or OCX does Microsoft recommend and is there a place we can find some sample code for it?Īny help anyone can give is MOST appreciated!

NET, there is no animation player (seems a huge oversight.) But we need to get 'unstuck' on this one, and we need that fast. We cant use Media Player because we dont want any menu - just the graphic. I searched Microsoft and the web to answer the 'what now?' question and though there are numerous suggestions, none of them work. Now - these dont work and we get nasty errors.

We were using the MS Common Controls (SP4) and then (SP6) - utilizing the Animation player. Then we had customers start using Vista and Win7 and this stuff crashes. Under Windows XP, our application ran fine and everything was good. We have code in our former VB6 application, that ported fine to VB.NET, that plays a simple AVI file of the typical 'flying folders' and 'spinning maginfying glass' AVI.

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