This bit of code will show you how to detect an active connection using the WinInet API.
I have seen many who use the Windows Registry to check for an active connection, this is fine but you also need to code for a Registry Wrapper or use a handy class like VBA's Registry one but this may cost you some size. So a convienent way is to use the winInet API to check for an active connection.
Dump this into a module and when you do something like 'Msgbox Connected()' you will get TRUE is its conencted and FALSE if it isn't.
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function InternetGetConnectedStateEx Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetGetConnectedStateExA" (lpdwFlags As Long, lpszConnectionName As Long, dwNameLen As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long
Public Function Connected() As Boolean
Dim lNameLen As Long
Dim lRetVal As Long
Dim lConnectionFlags As Long
Dim LPTR As Long
Dim lNameLenPtr As Long
Dim sConnectionName As String
sConnectionName = Space$(256)
lNameLen = 256
LPTR = StrPtr(sConnectionName)
lNameLenPtr = VarPtr(lNameLen)
lRetVal = InternetGetConnectedStateEx(lConnectionFlags, ByVal LPTR, ByVal lNameLen, 0&)
Connected = (lRetVal <> 0)
End Function
Smaller, reliable and most of all its using the Windows API which is far better than searching the Windows Registry for a certain KEY.
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