[GaryR]

How about a small program that can be opened in the visual studio, that just runs a stepper one direction and then the other. Or maybe just turns on one or more pins of the data port? Yes, I have the dll loaded with declare rather than invoke. Me and .net ain't getting along too well. vb.net 2003


GaryR not GaryM, he knows what he's doing :-)

[GaryR]

:drowning:

Guess I shouldn't be surprized at no takers on this. It's been the same for nearly a year now. Must have been to several hundred sites looking for this help. No matter, I have a win95/98 machine setup to use QB. Guess I wated my money on .net stuff.

GaryR

[fkaCarel]

Google "visual basic dan appleman parallel port". Old VB component veteran.

[Switcher]

I know you need vb.net 2003, the first link might help you (it's VB.NET 2005).

I havn't tried this yet (positive feedback).

Look at link #1 first.



(1) http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Inpout32_read.asp

(2) http://www.logix4u.net/inpout_theory.htm

(3) http://www.logix4u.net/inpout32.htm


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[GaryR]

The program at code project does the same thing as the program I got from Jan Alxsons' page. However, the program at code project uses a little bit different code and is easyer to understand. It was of some help.
Logix4u is where I got the dll I'm using. Do you know of a program that uses the the pins of the port for something, rather than just testing the port?
BTW: xp stuck my addon paralle port at 9000 in memory, rather than one of the three most popular locations. Go figure :-)

GaryR

[swilly]

Try to use Visual Studio 2005 (framework 2.0) and C#.
We have good success with it.
In the other hand, there are a lot of modules open source in the internet (www.codeproject.com).
C# is very powerful.
Avoid Visual Basic, QuickBasic, etc...