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Visual Basic Parallel Port

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Name: FoxyBoy
Date: May 18, 2003 at 13:04:16 Pacific
OS: Win XP / all
CPU/Ram: N/A
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I need to know how to program the parallel port in visual basic but i need to be able to have direct access to the port so i can turn the pings on or off as i want, (eg - parallel port 1 ping 2 on, parallel port 1 ping 3 off)



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Name: egkenny
Date: May 18, 2003 at 17:00:30 Pacific
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I have used the WINIO DLL I downloaded from:
http://www.internals.com/

An example I wrote using this in VB6.0:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/egkenny/files/VBTestParallelPort.zip

BTW, I have also used this same DLL with VC++6.0.


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