Visual Basic for Electronics Engineering Applications

Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0, VBA, .NET, 2005

Vincent Himpe

476 pages, parution le 30/11/2006

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Résumé

The PC has long-time outgrown its function as a pure computer and has become an all-purpose machine. This book is targeted towards those people that want to control existing or self-built hardware from their computer.

Using "Visual Basic" as Rapid Application Development tool, we will take you on a journey to unlock the world beyond the connectors of the PC.

After familiarising yourself with Visual Basic, its development environment and the toolset it offers, items such as serial communications, printer ports, bit-banging, protocol emulation, ISA, USB and Ethernet interfacing and the remote control of test-equipment over the GPIB bus, are covered in extent. Each topic is accompanied by clear, ready to run code, and where necessary, schematics are provided that will get your projects up to speed in no time.

This book will show you advanced things like: using tools like Debug to find hardware addresses, setting up remote communication using TCP/IP and UDP sockets and even writing your own internet servers. Or how about connecting your own block of hardware over USB or Ethernet and controlling it from Visual Basic.;Other things like internet-program communication, DDE and the new graphics interface of Windows XP are covered as well.

All examples are ready to compile using Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0, NET or 2005. Extensive coverage is given on the differences between what could be called Visual Basic Classic and Visual basic .NET / 2005.

Sommaire

The Visual Basic Background
Exploring the Visual Basic environment
The basic objects and controls
Events and methods
The Visual Basic langage
The NET platform in more detail
Creating a user interface
Attaching code to handle events
Running and debugging a program
Distributing a program
Multi-module projects
A couple of case studies
One step beyond
Graphics
Creating consol applications (NET)
Communicationfg to the world around us
Some more case studies
Digging into Windows
ActiveX control creation
Building better programs
The Windows registry
Scripting interpreters
Classes
Yet more case studies
The computer
Controlling external PC ports
The printer port in detail
The serial port in detail
The ISA bus in detail
USB
Ethernet
GPIB
Vision
Designing test programs
Pecial programming techniques
Building user interfaces
And yet more case studies
Closing thoughts

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Éditeur(s)	Publitronic - Elektor
Auteur(s)	Vincent Himpe
Parution	30/11/2006
Nb. de pages	476
Format	17 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	775g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780905705682
ISBN13	978-0-905705-68-2