TCP & USB ?

[Sherak]

Hi,

I want to write to a device connected to my PC via the USB port however Im currently trying to get my head round ports.....

I have got the information from the company who created the device and they tell me that to communicate with their device I have to write my software to listen on port 1111 and to send a command to the device I send it to that port using a TCP socket..... Now I have a good TCP socket component, however Im a little confused with the whole port/usb thing. Aside from settingt the socket up to listen on port 1111 do I have do any additional stuff to tell it that it should be listening on the USB device.......

Basically does anyone have nay good information on ports......

 

[2ffat]

I've been curious about this, too. More and more devices are using USB but I see very little info on how to program for these devices.


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[Supernat03]

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/winddk.mspx

This links to Microsoft's device driver development kit. It requires Visual C++ to actually compile, of course, but you could get an idea by just looking through the code. There are some USB examples.

Chris