Answering machine & Caller ID

I want to make a caller ID & answering machine program, but I can't find any resources for it. Someone told me to use tapi, but I couldn't find any place that shows how to use it. What should I use to make this program, and where are some good tutorials or something?

A book I have called "Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6" contains code for a CallerID program. I have the code for the entire project, but it's much too large to put here. If you want, I will email it to you.

Alternatively, you could go to their site and download all the sample projects from the book. The URL is:

http://www.mcp.com/info/0-7897/0-7897-1542-2/

Then download source.exe, which is a self-extracting program that will install all the sample source code from the book into a folder. The code for the CallerID is in the folder:

C:\...\SEUsing VB 6\Chapter 23\Callid\

Hope that helps!

~seaweed

Nice post seaweed. I've been toying with the idea of a prog like this for a while but could never get decent docs on tapi.

Thanks!
-PC Smith

Quick question for you...I'm assuming that this program will only work if you have the caller ID feature already purchased from the telephone company?