Hi Joe,

It's hard to think of the differences between the two, but this might help:

http://mspress.microsoft.com/prod/books/sampchap/4068.htm#108

As far serial/parallel communications, yes it's possible with LE. You'll need
a DLL from www.lvr.com.

Regards,

Tim Hamel

In a message dated 7/1/00 9:24:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
joeh100@CROSSWINDS.NET writes:

> I'm thinking about buying visual-basic learning edition.  What are the
>  limits to the learning edition and the advantages to the professional
>  edition?  Will I still be able to do serial & parallel communications?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Joe
>