I'm a newb. Anyone here have a Streamzap remote?

The reason I ask is that I'm looking to write an application that uses this remote (I have one on my desktop PC, and I love it.) This app will be touchscreen- and remote-controlled, and possibly used in a car-pc.

Here is my dilemma. I have emailed back and forth with tech support a few times, and they do have an API example available on how to intercept and process the WM_USER messages sent by the remote program. Unfortunately, it is written in C++, and I know even less about that than I do VB. I didn't realize that this would be such an undertaking when I was first considering the project.

As I understand it, the program sends a different WM_USER message for each button pressed on the remote, and all I would need to do is intercept these messages and raise events corresponding to the pressed button. (i.e. "Play", "Pause", "Stop", etc.)

I'm not gonna ask anyone to code this for me... Rather, I was wondering if someome could point me in the direction of a relatively simple introduction to the handling of Windows Messages. About the only use I've made of VB thus far was very simple file-handling utilities for work, like batch-renaming and file moving based a a prefix in the filename. Conditional IF_THEN kinda stuff.

Any help getting headed in the right direction would be appreciated. I'll try to answer any questions, and I'll have access to the code samples they provided in a couple of hours. (I'm at work, the code is at home.)

TIA