VB6 - Wireless Network API Exposed

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I've been doing some work with the WLAN API and thought that some may be interested. It's not complete yet but there's enough to get anyone interested in 'playing' a reasonable start.

The attached is a small project which will display the attributes of all available Wireless Networks to the Immediate Window and populate a ComboBox with the Available Networks Profile Names. Click on 'Show Wireless Networks' to start.

Clicking on a Profile Name will disconnect from the current network and attempt to connect to that network (Note that I have only tested this part on an unsecured network - feedback on other types of networks would be appreciated). Clicking on the 'Disconnect' button will disconnect from the currently connected network.

The WLAN_NOTIFICATION_CALLBACK routine is used to show the various stages involved in Connection and Disconnection, which are also displayed to the Immediate Window.

A word of warning, when running from the IDE make sure you exit via the 'Exit' button. This ensures that the Notification process is terminated in a proper fashion. If you don't do that, then you'll find that the IDE crashes within 1 minute.

Microsoft Documentation is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=VS.85).aspx

This is only applicable to XP SP2 and above (XP SP2 users can download the API from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...displaylang=en)

Feedback appreciated