Re: How do you read data from a USB port?

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From: Marc Reinig (Marco_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 11/13/04


Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:25:06 -0800

You cannot read from a USB port the way you can from a serial or parallel
port. You must open a handle to the device attached to the USB. To do that
you need to know information about the device from the manufacturer or what
standard interface class it uses.

Marc Reinig
System Solutions

"Darrell Wesley" <DarrellWesley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1446ABAD-CDFF-47F2-810E-ECD4531149A2@microsoft.com...
> Is there a good source of information on how to read a USB port, in
> particular reading data from a BarCode reader?