On 19 Sep 2008, at 11:38, John Ferrell wrote:

> There was a time when it was easy to interface external circuits to a PC and process the data. What I am looking for is a simple, low cost (free is better, consider my work as hobby-grade, one offs) recipe kind of solution to read/write into a Visual Basic (free version lease) or similar low 
budget programming language.  I have Jan Axelson's Serial Port book, have read much of her writing in Nuts & Volts and read her web site. Interfacing to any of the Visual Basic Explorer programs still eludes me. I feel that if I could really implement the addition of the MSCOMM module to any of 
the VB's I have downloaded or purchased I could take a leap forward. If the MSCOMM menus appeared in my VB IDE the problem would be solved.
> 
Have a look here:
http://www.hardandsoftware.net/
software downloads - netcommocx - I am not sure if it will meet your needs but 
Dick Grier is (probably) the person to tell you. Try a google group search for 
him as author.


George Smith

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