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Open and close the CD drive’s door

Open and close the CD drive’s door

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Here’s a short code snippet that lets you programmatically open and close the CD door. Note that not all the CD drives support these functions:

Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "mciSendStringA" _    (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, _    ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As LongPrivate Sub cmdOpenDoor_Click()    mciSendString "Set CDAudio Door Open Wait", vbNullString, 0, 0End SubPrivate Sub cmdCloseDoor_Click()    mciSendString "Set CDAudio Door Closed Wait", vbNullString, 0, 0End Sub

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