Paralle port accessing using Visual basic 6

[delimav]

Does anyone knows how ro access serial port using Visula basic ?

 

[nicleo]

For parallel port, pls refer to this page **broken link removed**

For serial communication, you can use the built-in control as shown in the figure below.

 

[elcielo]

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[Nick C.]

Here is a good place to start:

https://www.mvps.org/rgrier/parallel.htm

Nick

 

[Microemission]

For parallel port use this driver, it includes examples for VC++ and Vb.
I have used it many times never game me problems
**broken link removed**

For serial port interfacing this page is excelent for Pc interfacing fans.
http://www.beyondlogic.org/

And if you're confortable with Api programming on Vb here is an great example:
**broken link removed**
Has the advantage that you can open the com port to weird baud rates like 5720bps unlike Ms Comm control and works fine.

 

[tjalps]

Please, note that systems based on NT(WIN XP, WIN 2000 ) needs diferent drivers than WIN98SE.

For WIN DXP and WIN2000 I'm using Inpout32