Input/output to parallel port?

16 Jun 2006 6:08 PM

markzoom

I want to input from and output to the parallel port to read switches
or turn stuff on/off.
I program Microchip PIC processors in PicBasic but am just wondering if
it's just as easy to replace a pic processor with a PC using VB.net.

17 Jun 2006 4:57 PM

Dick Grier

Hi,

You can download IONet.dll (free) from my homepage. This wraps a device
driver that permits direct port IO.

Dick

--
Richard Grier, MVP
Hard & Software
Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, Fourth
Edition,
ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages, includes CD-ROM). July 2004, Revised March
2006.
See www.hardandsoftware.net for details and contact information.

17 Jun 2006 9:24 PM

markzoom

Dick Grier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can download IONet.dll (free) from my homepage. This wraps a device
> driver that permits direct port IO.

Downloaded with BIG thanks !

Rgds. Mark

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> --
> Richard Grier, MVP
> Hard & Software
> Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, Fourth
> Edition,
> ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages, includes CD-ROM). July 2004, Revised March
> 2006.
> See www.hardandsoftware.net for details and contact information.