• Serial Port Complete: COM Ports, USB Virtual COM Ports, and Ports for Embedded Systems (Complete Guides series) | | | |
• USB Complete: The Developer's Guide (Complete Guides series) | | | |
• Programming the Parallel Port: Interfacing the PC for Data Acquisition and Process Control | | | |
• USB Mass Storage: Designing and Programming Devices and Embedded Hosts | | | |
• Embedded Ethernet and Internet Complete | | | |

too outdated
Review written by: Xueqing Xu From
this book is too outdated because the parallel drivers' code is written in VB6. I could never find these VB6 function in MS documentation.

oh, please, public a newer edition.

thanks

ParalellPortComplete
Review written by: R. Lappi From Eskilstuna, Sweden
The packets was very, very bad!
I belive I never gon to order from Amazon again!
The book it self, is what I order, but the shipment...
I see hove much customers means to you with that shipment.

Great
Review written by: Noe Alvarado Tovar From durango, Mexico
Parallel Port Complete: Programming, Interfacing & Using the PC'S Parallel Printer Port
This is great book in order to program the parallel port

Excellent parallel port software reference
Review written by: KG From
The software reference is very good. The Parallel Port really hasn't changed
at all, so for hardware, this is a good book.

Also the software interfaces can still be used. They have been updated
to work with Vista and higher.

For Windows 2000 and up, printer reading can be done with LPTx.4
(LPT1 -> 1, etc).

I also like the fact it shows you limitations. A lot of the Microsoft
OS limitations apply to other ports types as well.

The Title says it All
Review written by: J. head From littlteton, nh USA
I cannot recommend this book highly enough for the home gageteer. The author Jan Axelson is a rare example of someone that knows her stuff, explains it well to novices, and provides excellent generic examples of code. The examples provided cover situations such as; exporting data bits out thru the parallel port, reading info from the data port, searching for data ports and addresses, and using the parallel port to communicate pc to pc. Seldom do you find a "can-do" person that provides excellent instruction at a beginner's level. The fascination of this book is that as home computers become more powerful, they are still limited in their effect on the external environment, except through dedicated peripherals, such as printers, scanners, etc. With this book, a pc port relay kit (purchased off the internet), and maybe a semester of Visual Basic instruction and " you da man ". Once you can open and close a relay connected to your parallel port from a visual basic program you are off and running. Most electrical devices in you home become fair game. This book needs an update, except for a Tour-de Force in the beginning chapters of code segments in Pascal, Assembler And Quick-Basic, the remainder of the book is in Visual basic 4.0. This reader had no problem importing the examples provided on the enclosed floppy disk into Visual Basic 5.0 . This author has also written a sister book "The Complete Serial Port ", and it is on my "must read " list.