Newbie Question: CDR drives

[Nick Danger]

Hi all,

I need a way that I can query the system and determine if it has a
CDR/CDRW drive and then burn information to that disk. I have looked
in a number of books and on MSDN but I cannot find what I am looking
for. Can someone please help me out?

Thanks!

Nick

 

[Jerry]

I believe there is a way to use Windows Media Player or Real Player to burn
CDRs
CDRW formats are proprietary. Forget about them.

Regards

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

I need a way that I can query the system and determine if it has a
CDR/CDRW drive and then burn information to that disk. I have looked
in a number of books and on MSDN but I cannot find what I am looking
for. Can someone please help me out?

If you use Windows XP, you can use IMAPI for burning CDs:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/cplusplus/samples/cd burning.zip

Notice that this is not a "job" for VB .NET.

HTH,
Herfried K. Wagner