VB, ARNET, AND DLL

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2 total messages Started by Joe Bartling Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:32

#2306

Author: Joe Bartling
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:32

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On 1/4/93, Mark Tsombakos of GTE - Special Systems
          (markt@rocky.ndhm.gtegsc.com)
said:
-> I'm relatively new to Visual Basic, so kindly bear with me.  We've
-> purchased a serial communications card from Arnet (the Smartport
-> Lite) that has eight serial ports.  We also bought the Communication
-> Developer's Kit that is designed to let you develop applications for
-> Windows.
->
-> My question:  The Comm Developers Kit comes with a .DLL file, but VB
-> refuses to access it ("Error loading DLL" or something like that).
-> According to the tech support at Arnet, they do not support Visual
-> Basic, but they DO support C. As I understand it, VB should be able
-> to use it anyway.

You may want to look into PDQComm for Visual Basic.  It allows you
(according to their slick ad brochure) to add serial communications to
your VB applications.  Says it comes with "a complete library of
subroutines, functions, and a unique custom control for adding event
driven serial communications support to your Visual Basic applications."

PDQComm is put out by Crescent Software, Inc., 11 Bailey Avenue,
Ridgefield, CT 06877-4505 Tel: 800-35BASIC or 203-438-5300
                                                                                                               
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Re: VB, ARNET, AND DLL

#2319

Author: Mark Tsombakos
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:08

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Joe Bartling (joe.bartling@uunet!sqlware) wrote:
: You may want to look into PDQComm for Visual Basic.  It allows you
: (according to their slick ad brochure) to add serial communications to
: your VB applications.  Says it comes with "a complete library of
: subroutines, functions, and a unique custom control for adding event
: driven serial communications support to your Visual Basic applications."
: 
: PDQComm is put out by Crescent Software, Inc., 11 Bailey Avenue,
: Ridgefield, CT 06877-4505 Tel: 800-35BASIC or 203-438-5300

(I tried writing E-mail to you, but I don't think it made it)

Thanks for the info, but due to a restriction in Windows, VB only supports
4 serial ports, where my application need to access to 24.  Supposedly, ARNET's
comm driver supports 32 (?) by using some kind of switching.

Thanks again for replying.
Mark

--
Mark Tsombakos
GTE - Special Systems
markt@rocky.ndhm.gtegsc.com

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