微软的一项Agent技术（动画小精灵） Agent 技术，通过运行该技术就可以在自己的程序中使用很有趣的精灵了。 Microsoft Agent核心组建 Microsoft Agent的四个精灵：吉尼（Genie）、么林（Merlin）、罗比（Robby）以及皮蒂（Peedy） //在创建程序的用户界面以前我们必须先导入Agent Control这个ActiveX控件，该控件在你安装好系统要求中的项后便有了。下面是导入的方法：选择菜单"工具->自定义工具箱"，并选择Microsoft Agent Control 2.0组件// （vb.net中可能无需此步） Private agentController As AgentObjects.Agent Private agentCharacter As AgentObjects.IAgentCtlCharacter private IAgentCtlCharacterEx Character;（这就是我们要用到的精灵的对象）。 Private Sub frmMain_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load ' The Agent object is used to open a connection to the Agent server, ' load the character, and then associate the character with the ' variable referencing the IAgentCtlCharacter interface. From then ' on you program against the agentCharacter. agentController = New AgentObjects.Agent() With agentController .Connected = True .Characters.Load("merlin", "merlin.acs") /导入精灵么林（Merlin） agentCharacter = .Characters("merlin") End With ' 使用位置属性将精灵放置在窗体的左上角. With agentCharacter .MoveTo(CShort(Me.Location.X + 420), CShort(Me.Location.Y + 130)) .Show() .Play("Announce") // Announce 是精灵的一种行为“吹喇叭” .Speak("Hello, my name is Merlin. " & _ "Welcome to the Office Automation Demo!") .Play("GestureRight") // GestureRight是精灵的一种行为“请” .Play("wave") // GestureRight是精灵的一种行为“招手” 'You can make Merlin's speech sound more natural by inserting speech ' output tags like Pau (Pause), Chr (Character of the Voice), ' Emp (Emphasis) or Spd (Speed). Surround each name-value pair with a ' backslash character. .Speak("Make me say something,/pau=300/or/pau=500/...") .MoveTo(CShort(Me.Location.X + 340), CShort(Me.Location.Y + 250)) .Play("GestureRight") .Speak("...try out some of my animations.") End With End Sub