• USB Complete: Everything You Need to Develop Custom USB Peripherals (Complete Guides series)
• Serial Port Complete: COM Ports, USB Virtual COM Ports, and Ports for Embedded Systems (Complete Guides series)
• Serial Port Complete: Programming and Circuits for Rs-232 and Rs-485 Links and Networks
• Embedded Ethernet and Internet Complete
• USB Mass Storage: Designing and Programming Devices and Embedded Hosts

too outdated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this book is too outdated because the parallel drivers' code is written in VB6.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
Parallel Port Complete: Programming, Interfacing & Using the PC'S Parallel Printer Port
This is great book in order to program the parallel port

Outdated for software programmers
Review written by: KG From
The software is useless for todays Microsoft Operating systems.
The programs are useless on any current NT system. By NT,
I mean NT3.1 and higher (XP,2000,2003,Vista).
I am only giving
it two stars because there is good hardware information.
Thats it. The technical community pretty much abandoned
Parallel ports for USB.

The fact is, all local port communication is done with three
Windows API(s). These APIs are CreateFile, ReadFile, and WriteFile.
Also, to get the file name, you need SetupDi utilities
from SetupApi.h.

There is nothing in the book about this. If anybody is interested,
email me at k9gatton@yahoo.com. I will show you how to communicate
with a bi-directional device. It is a little tricky with LPT, but
it is not impossible. This is because the spooler blocks LPT ports
with a secure named pipe.

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.