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Summary: My Bible
Review: As a VB programmer for 4 years, the last 2 spent working with various instruementation devices, serial comms is a MUST KNOW area for me. This book has been my main port of call for any serial comms issue that I have come accross. Although at this stage it is rarely moved from my book shelf, that is only because its knowledge is lodged firmly in my head. Excellent book. Well Done.
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Summary: This book was a huge help in finishing a difficult project.
Review: As an experienced VB programmer, but one with little serialcommunications background I had almost come to a standstill on myproject. I had seen a lot of answers to messages on Compuserve from Dick Grier, so when his book finally came out I bought it immediately. His book breaks serial communications concepts down into components I can track through my program. I was able to fix the problems and get my project in on time thanks to what I learned from this book.
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Summary: Wow! Great Book
Review: For Visual Basic programmers working with serial ports, if you are not an expert at them, then you need this book. Since I already had a great deal of experience with serial ports, most of this was not new to me. However, instead of having to train some colleagues on all the details, I recommended they buy this book. They did and it made them very proficient with serial ports. They kept the books.
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Summary: Brings serial support and VB together nicely
Review: I am always pleasantly surprised by the number of people in thetechnical world who take the time to summarize their knowledge andshare it with others. Dick Grier has done a fine job of getting together information that ties serial communications and Visual Basic together. If you are a novice to intermediate user of either serial communications or Visual Basic (in my case, I am a novice VB programmer), the book will provide sufficient info to get you "over the top". Modems, terminal emulators, loggers, GPS interfacing and telephony are some of the areas that are covered. You may find a sample app that fits just what you are trying to accomplish. To facilitate moving beyond the information the book provides, Dick has included a list that covers lots of additional resources for data.
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Summary: Excellent material!
Review: I bought this book while trying to build a project which was basically a modem terminal like those we used to access BBS in those old days before the internet. I knew a lot about modem terminals, I was comfortable with modems, but VB 6 was new to me, so, it just wasn't easy. Richard's book helped a lot, I did end up building a fairly decent terminal. It might be true that the book is a bit oriented to modems, but you will also find information that will be useful in several other projects.It was a pity that the author did not include a better version of the terminal. He does, however, include several components which you can use, modem LED lights, a init string selector etc. Would have been nice to see it all working together, but we can learn while trying to do it ourselves. Also, I was very impressed with Richard's help. Here's an author that prints his email in the book, and actually replies to it very quickly. Richard was very helpful clearing some of my questions and even sent me some code. Excellent. Buy it if you need help with modems and VB 6, and strongly think about buying it if you don't use modems but need any serial port action with VB.
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Summary: 6 stars if it was possable.
Review: Needed to write a VB6.0 program to communicate with ten (10) temperature controllers via RS485. Also wrote an ActiveX dll in VB6.0 to communicate to an Electrocraft Servo Drive Controller. This book helped immensely in both of those tasks. If you need examples of how to use the MSCOMM control, this book is it!
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Summary: Looking for a Serial Comm Tutorial Type
Review: One thing that i like in this book is the author's recommendation on how to optimize the serial communication program in terms of program execution speed. However, i do not like the way source codes are pointed out. Some codes are shaded gray and it took me time to find which code is being explained. Each line of code should have been numbered. Additionally, the book may need to add some more pages that will walk the reader through a small most common serial comm project from "scratch to finish". Overall, this book is a good reference.
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Summary: The most complete reference for VB serial-port programmers
Review: This book covers serial-port programming in Visual Basic from VB's early editions through Visual Basic .NET, including programming for Windows CE. It's the most complete reference you'll find on the topic. Richard Grier has done a great job of keeping the book up to date through multiple editions. If you do serial-port programming in VB, this book will save you time and trouble.
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Summary: Wow! Great Book
Review: This is an excellent, excellent reference for using serial ports with VB. I can't say enough for this book. The author knows his material and communicates his knowledge very well. I am using it to write a communications program to interface with field devices using the modbus protocol. The book doesn't specifically cover modbus, but I still found this book to be very helpful. Again, excellent!
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