What did I do wrong (VB.NET)

[Bill Nguyen]

please tell me what I am missing in the snippet below:
Dim fxServer As New FaxServer

Dim fxDoc As New FaxDocument

Dim fxID As Integer

fxDoc = CreateObject("FAXCOMEX.FaxDocument")

'Set file name of document.

Try

fxDoc.Body = "C:\dotnet\gartner.doc" 'Send this document- Give a valid path
'***MUST***

fxDoc.DocumentName = "Test Fax"

fxDoc.Recipients.Add("9999999") 'Sending Number ' Must '9 for prefix in my
case.

'Set the sender properties.

fxDoc.Sender.Name = "Bill "

fxDoc.Sender.FaxNumber = "9999999" 'Put a valid number to avoid error

'

'Submit the document to the connected fax server and get back the job ID.

' fxID = fxDoc.Submit("printserver") 'Fax server name Regent which can be a
remote server.

'------------------------

fxDoc = Nothing

fxServer = Nothing

Catch

Dim ex As Exception

MsgBox(ex.ToString)

End Try

Exit Function

 

[Raghavendra R [MSFT]]

I don't see a problem as such. What's the error (or exception) code you are
getting?

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[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Try
fxServer.Connect("")
fxDoc.ConnectedSubmit(fxServer)

 

[Bill nguyen]

Alex;
I'm connecting to a Win 2003 fax server named "PRINTSERVER"
How can the app get connected if the fax server name is empty?
Thanks
Bill

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Sorry, did not notice that. In that case yes, use it's name as a parameter
to Connect. Also, what is the client OS?

 

[Bill Nguyen]

Alex;
The client OS is XP professional SP2. This is my development machine. I
already installed the shared fax from fax server "Printserver"

I tried fxServer.Connect("Printserver") but it seemed not to be working.

Anyadd itional info you want me to post for debugging?
Thanks

Bill

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Do you get an error code returned from any of this calls (Connect,
ConnectredSubmit)?

 

[Bill Nguyen]

Alex;
here's what happened:

Error msg:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in
App.exe
Addtional Information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.


During execution, I noted that:
fxServer.Connect("PRINTSERVER") showed nothing

fxDoc.Recipients.Add("9,3938738") showed nothing

fxID = fxDoc.Submit("printserver") -> this line caused the error above to
occur


Hope that this give you some idea.



Thanks



Bill

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Bill,
Every method on the COM object such as FaxServer or FaxDocument returns
HRESULT - a 32 bit value. If it is not 0, then an error has occured and
HRESULT is an indication of this error. What error do you get here?

 

[Bill Nguyen]

Alex;
it was the problem with the document file/path name.
fxDoc.Body = "C:\dotnet\gartner.doc". Should be gartner2004.doc instead.
it's working good now.
Thanks for your help.
Bill