Using USB port and VB.net

[MattB]

Hi

I am writing a desktop app in vb.net 2005 and need to read and write to the usb port.
Has anybody had any experience of this or know of anywhere I could get some info on it.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Matt

 

[Daveyboyuk]

I have written software for USB device. However the DLL was provided for me and I simply made a call to this from .NET. I think you will need to use a DLL as Windows 2000 onwards does not let you directly access hardware.

 

[voodooflux]

Here are a couple of articles (C# rather than VB.NET) courtesy of Google that might get you started:

VSJ - Making USB C# friendly

Coding4Fun - Writing Better Software for Cool USB Hardware