Fax Services: Send Any Printable File From Your Program in Windows 2000

All versions of Windows 2000 have fax services built in, so sending faxes manually is as easy as setting fax options from the control panel. Faxes can also be sent programmatically in Windows 2000 using either COM Automation or the standard C API. The example in this article uses COM Automation with Visual Basic and MFC to programmatically manage faxing. The objects used for fax transmission, such as the FaxServer and FaxDoc objects, as well as their properties and methods, are explained. Because faxing of files you can't print can be problematic, this process is explained. Finally, this article implements a fax routing extension-a plug-in that exports standard functions and implements routing methods for processing received faxes.

Marcin Kaluza

<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/ef8f0a96-462c-4f44-a9b0-4ca56de05ee5">MSDN Magazine August 2001