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Hello All,
A while ago, I developed a system in which two specialized applications written in VB6 running on two different computers needed to exchange data in real time via a serial interface (std RS232 COM port). One of the two computers is a laptop which one operator connects regularly to a host computer and reads data and sends data as well. Today's computers do not have COM ports anymore. We have used USB to Serial adapters and it does not work so well anymore. It seems that these adaptors tend to jam the communication from time to time, which never happenned before. We have tried 6 different brands with no success. We would like to get rid of these adapters and modify our code in both applications so that the computers could communicate with a direct USB to USB link.
In the original software, the communication part was written using MSCOMM32.OCX. I have not found anything equivalent for USB communication.
Any suggestion anybody?
A while ago, I developed a system in which two specialized applications written in VB6 running on two different computers needed to exchange data in real time via a serial interface (std RS232 COM port). One of the two computers is a laptop which one operator connects regularly to a host computer and reads data and sends data as well. Today's computers do not have COM ports anymore. We have used USB to Serial adapters and it does not work so well anymore. It seems that these adaptors tend to jam the communication from time to time, which never happenned before. We have tried 6 different brands with no success. We would like to get rid of these adapters and modify our code in both applications so that the computers could communicate with a direct USB to USB link.
In the original software, the communication part was written using MSCOMM32.OCX. I have not found anything equivalent for USB communication.
Any suggestion anybody?