ICQ and VB

[moperke]

hi,
i'm making a sms program with vb that uses ICQ. everything works fine but now i want to know how i can register ICQ accounts from my appilication so the users of my program don't need to install icq or go to the icq website to register an account.

i tried it with the icqudp5.ocx but most of the time it just blocks and doesn't register a new account at all. an other solution would be studying the whole icq protocol but that would take a lot of time for such a little thing so it's not my intension to do this.

are there maybe people who already made a program doing this? or are there other and better ocx files?

hope someone can help me...i really need this one...

thx,
Moperke

[Rick Bull]

Well there is an open source standard callled Jabber that lets you connect to ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo and IRC, and the client I use (which was recommend by some people here ) just redirects people to http://go.icq.com/register/ But maybe you should think about using the Jabber standard from http://www.jabber.org/ - but be aware that there are loads of clients already