Call to FaxConnectFaxServer: Cannot find entrypoint in winfax.dll!

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathias_W=FChrmann?=]

Hi,

I'm writing a faxapplication in VB 6 and going to use the fax API to get
information about running jobs.

In order to get a fax handle for querying jobs, I need to make a call to
API function FaxConnectFaxServer. This one always fails with error
"entry point FaxConnectFaxServer not found in winfax.dll"!

What am I doing wrong? Thanks for helping.

PS: Using Windows 2000 SP4.

Regards,

Mathias Wuehrmann

 

[Raghavendra R [MSFT]]

Few things
1. Please share your code fragment that's giving the problem
2. Locate the winfax.dll (typically in %windir%\system32 directory) & look
for the FaxConnectFaxServerW/A in the list of exports. The exports list can
be viewed by using a tool 'depends.exe' that's available at
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

By the way, why are you not using the Fax COM APIs available in Win2K that
would be easier to use than a plan C/C++ API such as FaxConnectFaxServer.
The Win2K Fax COM APIs are explained at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fax/faxlegacy_2n1q.asp

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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathias_W=FChrmann?=]

Hi Raghavendra,

Raghavendra R [MSFT] wrote:
Few things
1. Please share your code fragment that's giving the problem
2. Locate the winfax.dll (typically in %windir%\system32 directory) & look
for the FaxConnectFaxServerW/A in the list of exports. The exports list can
be viewed by using a tool 'depends.exe' that's available at
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

Thanks, works fine.

By the way, why are you not using the Fax COM APIs available in Win2K that
would be easier to use than a plan C/C++ API such as FaxConnectFaxServer.
The Win2K Fax COM APIs are explained at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fax/faxlegacy_2n1q.asp

Because COM seems to have much lesser functionality! So I'm using COM as
far as possible and the APIs for the more sophisticated stuff like
querying the status of jobs and getting the planned sending time, number
of retries, etc.

Thanks,

Mathias Wuehrmann