[VB.NET] - Foolirc - a winlirc to foobar2000 translator

I apolgize for the length. My program is an intermediary program. It sits between a winlirc server. Winlirc is a program at interprets the signals from an infrared remote control and then sends its interpretation to all clients connected to the server. My program connects to the winlirc server, waits for something to be sent to it from the winlirc server, processes the input, and then uses the processed input to send a command, using some pieces of the winamp api, to foobar2000.

This program has been a lot of learning for me and much of it I still don't fully understand. Sockets being the least understood of the whole program. I have a few bugs left to work out. One of which happens to be in the timers. Any time a timer is run it starts sucking up 100% of my cpu. I need some way for a delay between processing input from the winlirc server that doesn't eat cpu time like mad. Another bug which I think stems somewhat from the way sockets are handled seems to process two seperate inputs and runs them both at the same time, which shouldn't be possible. And yes much of this is hard coded. I have no intention to put the work into this program to make it capable of being configured without having the source code and visual studio.

I'd appreciate any comments you may have on this code or any ways to make it better. It's hard to learn how to do things the right way without some guidance. :)

Also my comments suck.. or they are sucky attempts at humor, just ignore em. :P

VB Code:

Option Strict On
 
Module Module1
    'Global variable describing if the program is active or not.
    'will be set by the system tray icon.
    Dim gIsActive As Boolean = True
    Dim mBytes(1024) As Byte
 
    'Dim mTrayIconCreated As Boolean = False
 
    'Supar sekret MAGICAL MSDN code...
    'creates a new socket
    Dim LIRCSocket As New System.Net.Sockets.Socket(System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork, System.Net.Sockets.SocketType.Stream, System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType.Tcp)
    'Resolves a hostname
    Dim ipHostInfo As System.Net.IPHostEntry = System.Net.Dns.Resolve("172.16.1.69")
    'Does something
    Dim ipas As System.Net.IPAddress = ipHostInfo.AddressList(0)
 
    'ipas is the ipaddress of the target machine, 8765 is the socket we want to connect to on the target machine
    Dim RemoteIP As New System.Net.IPEndPoint(ipas, 8765)
 
    Dim Start, Finish As Double
 
    'if this is true then we are connected to the lirc server
    Public mIsConnected As Boolean
 
    'Holds the last key that was pressed
    'Dim mLastKeyPressed As String = ""
 
    'holes the number of times the last key was pressed
    'Dim mLastKeyPressedTimes As Integer
 
    'Sets whether or not the program is finished.
    Public mIsFinished As Boolean = False
 
    'Volume of Foobar
    'Public mVolume As Integer
 
    'Is foobar paused or not?  This variable has the answer!
    Dim mFoobarPaused As Boolean
 
#Region "WINAMP API"
    ' Window Messages to use with SendMessageByString and SendMessageLong.
    Public Const WM_COMMAND As Integer = &H111
    Public Const WM_USER As Integer = &H400
 
    '' WM_COMMAND Winamp API IDs.
    Public Const WA_NEXT As Integer = 40048
    Public Const WA_PAUSE As Integer = 40046
    Public Const WA_PLAY As Integer = 40045
    Public Const WA_PREVIOUS As Integer = 40044
    Public Const WA_STOP As Integer = 40047
    Public Const WA_VOLUME_DOWN As Integer = 40059
    Public Const WA_VOLUME_UP As Integer = 40058
 
#End Region
 
    ' Declare our API calls.
    Public Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Integer
    Public Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal wMsg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As Integer) As Integer
    Private Declare Function apiGetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal sCaption As String, ByVal lCaptionSize As Integer) As Integer
    Private Declare Function apiGetWindowTextLength Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" (ByVal hwnd As Integer) As Integer
 
    Sub connect()
        'I have no clue what the heck this stuff does.
        'Stolen from MSDN's Socket stuff
        Try
            LIRCSocket.Connect(RemoteIP)
        Catch
 
        End Try
    End Sub
 
    Public Function Winamp_Hwnd() As Integer
        ' Used to get the handle of the Winamp window.
        Winamp_Hwnd = FindWindow("Winamp v1.x", Microsoft.VisualBasic.vbNullString)
    End Function
 
    Public Function Foobar_Hwnd() As Integer
        ' Used to get the handle of the Foobar2000 window.
        Foobar_Hwnd = FindWindow("FOOBAR2000_CLASS", Microsoft.VisualBasic.vbNullString)
    End Function
 
    Public Function GetWindowCaption(ByRef WhWnd As Integer) As String
        'API WRAPPER TO GET WINDOW CAPTION INFO
        Dim lLength As Integer
        Dim sCaption As String
        Dim lRetValue As Integer
 
        'Get length of windows Caption
        lLength = apiGetWindowTextLength(WhWnd) + 1
 
        'Create a string of blanks to pass into apiGetWindowText
        sCaption = New String(CType(" ", Char), lLength + 1)
 
        'Get Windows Caption
        lRetValue = apiGetWindowText(WhWnd, sCaption, lLength)
        GetWindowCaption = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(sCaption, lLength)
    End Function
 
    Public Function ProcessSocket() As String
        'this variable holds the string that will be received and stripped from the socket buffer thing
        '        Dim SocketData As String
        Dim BytesRec As Integer
        BytesRec = LIRCSocket.Receive(mBytes)
 
        'assign what the remote program sent to a variable
        ProcessSocket = (System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(mBytes, 0, 33))
 
        'This strips out the first 20 characters in the stuff recieved from the socket
        ProcessSocket = ProcessSocket.Remove(0, 20)
 
        'This removes anything after the first 4 characters
        ProcessSocket = ProcessSocket.Remove(4, (ProcessSocket.Length - 4))
    End Function
 
    Function Foobar_Status() As String
        Dim FoobarHandle As Integer
        Dim FoobarTitle As String
        FoobarHandle = Foobar_Hwnd()
        FoobarTitle = GetWindowCaption(FoobarHandle)
        If FoobarTitle.StartsWith("foobar2000") Then
            Foobar_Status = "STOPPED"
        Else
            Foobar_Status = "PLAYING"
        End If
    End Function
 
 
 
    Sub main()
        'Checks to see if the program is connected to the WinLIRC server
        'if it isn't it creates a connection.
        If mIsConnected = False Then
            connect()
            mIsConnected = True
        End If
 
        Do Until mIsFinished = True
 
            Dim CommandData As String
            Do Until CommandData <> ""
                CommandData = ProcessSocket()
            Loop
 
            'holds the processed data from the winlirc socket
 
 
            'Calls the function to process the data from the socket opened to the winlirc server
            CommandData = ProcessSocket()
 
            'Holds the Command to send to the window
            Dim WinampUserCommand As Integer
 
            Select Case CommandData
                Case Is = "play"
                    'play/pause support could probably be implemented with more special handling
                    'checking to see if foo is playing or not
                    If Foobar_Status() = "PLAYING" Then
                        If mFoobarPaused <> True Then
                            WinampUserCommand = WA_PAUSE
                            mFoobarPaused = True
                        Else
                            WinampUserCommand = WA_PAUSE
                            mFoobarPaused = False
                        End If
                    Else
                        WinampUserCommand = WA_PLAY
                    End If
                Case Is = "stop"
                    WinampUserCommand = WA_STOP
                Case Is = "next"
                    WinampUserCommand = WA_NEXT
                Case Is = "back"
                    WinampUserCommand = WA_PREVIOUS
                Case Is = "mute"
                    'This case will require special handling to set the volume to 0 and then reset it to previous levels
                    'Assuming it will work with foobar...
                Case Is = "volu"
                    WinampUserCommand = WA_VOLUME_UP
                Case Is = "vold"
                    WinampUserCommand = WA_VOLUME_DOWN
                Case Is = "+10 "
                    WinampUserCommand = WA_STOP
                    mIsFinished = True
                Case Else
                    mIsFinished = True
            End Select
 
            Call SendMessage(Winamp_Hwnd(), WM_COMMAND, WinampUserCommand, 0)
 
            Start = Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateAndTime.Timer
            Finish = Start + 0.5  ' Set end time for 5-millisecond duration.
            Do While Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateAndTime.Timer < Finish
                ' Do other processing while waiting for 5 seconds to elapse.
            Loop
 
            CommandData = Microsoft.VisualBasic.vbNullString
            WinampUserCommand = Microsoft.VisualBasic.vbNull
 
        Loop
        Shutdown()
    End Sub
 
    Sub Shutdown()
        'This shuts down the socket and closes it like a good program
        'It COULD crash so we use some exception handling
        Try
            LIRCSocket.Shutdown(System.Net.Sockets.SocketShutdown.Both)
            LIRCSocket.Close()
        Catch
            'MsgBox("something really really bad happened when trying to close the socket...")
        End Try
    End Sub
End Module