Parallel Port Complete: Programming, Interfacing & Using the PC'S Parallel Printer Port

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Summary: Very thorough treatment of parallel port control from VB.
Review: This is a very good book for those interested in controlling the parallel port interface on the PC. The most common usage is for cheap/inexpensive data acquisition or control, but the book also covers "LapLink" type transfers, high speed printing and device chaining. In my opinion, this books greatest strength is that all of the code is provided in Visual Basic, Delphi and C. Visual Basic and Win95/WinNT cannot directly control the printer port, so the authors have made a library of routines for use with any language, thus filling a hole that exists in Visual Basic. Anyone who wants to directly control the parallel port from Visual Basic will find everything they need (both on disk and in instruction) in this book.

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Summary: Parallel Port Complete
Review: This is a very good book for VB programmers who need to do communication programming over the parallel port. It includes a disk with a custom dll for accessing the port with several great examples and techniques of writing a communication program to be used by the parallel port. This book will be a great help to VB programmers who don't want to write C code to access the parallel port.

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Summary: Very good, a must buy for any programmer
Review: This is a well written book. The example code is very easy to follow and no stone is left unturned. In only hours I was able to write my own parallel port based transfer program for our office's laptops.

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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: Unless you're writing a DOS app, this book is pretty much useless. My synopsis on the whole parallel I/O is that if you're using NT 4 or newer, go the CreateFile route. If it's Win 98 or older, give up!

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Summary: How to use a parallel port in your projects.
Review: VB programmers now you have the good book described how to use a parallel port in your projects.
Now you can cake yours programmer for microcontroller and drive them for VB (not use C++), for example.
This book also contain disk with a custom dll for accessing for parallel port.