How to suppress a call to a dll to open warning dialog box in vb.net

Question

I am calling a function in an external dll to a device that runs some firmware. When I call device_open(), the device driver brings up a Warning dialog box that says there is a newer version of the firmware available. How do I suppress the warning dialog box? I am calling this function during an overnight test, so the dialog box prevents my tests from finishing.

Answer 1

Given your use case scenario, I doubt that, writing code to resolve this problem, really worth the effort required (API to FindWindow, KeyStroke to send to the dialog, etc).
I suggest this free utility that runs keyboard macro AutoHotKey . (I'm not linked to them) Search, in particular, for the WinWaitActive macro

Pay attention to the Run as Administrator problem for this kind of utility in Windows 7 or Vista