VB Express would be my first choice but I have not found serial support in 
it. I have been looking at 2008 and  think 2005. It is getting confusing 
enough I am going to have to back up and take some notes.

Until I read your post AsyncPro was at the top of my list. The company has 
gone out of business but placed the product with Source Forge.

There are a lot of suggestions for me to run down here, it is going to take 
a while!

John Ferrell    W8CCW

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do 
nothing." -- Edmund Burke
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vitaliy" <spam@maksimov.org>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC] PIC to PC interface


> John Ferrell wrote:
>> What level of Visual Basic would I have to buy to make the serial
>> interface (or USB or Parallel) available to the programming process?
>>
>> Is there an add-on product (free or Pay) that serves this purpose?
>>
>> Is there a better way than what I seeking to interface the PIC code to 
>> the
>> PC code?
>
> John, I'm surprised that no one suggested VB.Net Express (or did I miss 
> it?)
>
> The SerialPort component comes standard in all Microsoft Visual Studio
> Express tools. And they're all free, including VB. There's plenty of 
> example
> code out there, and the component is very easy to use.
>
> VS Express seems to be the tool of choice for Microchip, most (all?) of 
> the
> example code for interfacing PICs with PCs at the MASTERS was in VB, C#, 
> or
> C++.
>
> Bob Blick suggested the ComPort and AsyncPro. I used both on Delphi 7. 
> While
> the first one has far fewer features, if you are choosing between the two, 
> I
> would strongly advise you to stay away from AsyncPro. It has a tendency to
> crash on machines with hyperthreading. I haven't used ComPort in a long
> time, but I have a feeling that it doesn't have the same problem, because 
> it
> runs in a single thread.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vitaliy
>
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