I could hardly control my excitement when this book came through the post. For the Electronics Hobbyist or Professional Designer it offers the opportunity to take your projects into a completely new world with PC control via your own GUI (or command-line) driven applications.
Visual Basic for Electronics Engineering Applications: 5.0, 6.0, Vba, .Net, 2005
Vincent Himpe
2006
ISBN-10 : 0905705688
ISBN-13 : 978-0905705682
This book covers Visual BASIC programming for all the latest versions of the development environment including 5.0, 6.0, VBA, .net and 2005 so no matter which you use, this book should give you an excellent footing for the development of Windows applications.
The book is written by an Electronics Engineer, specifically FOR Electronics Engineers and is geared towards our applications of the language. The first half (or perhaps 3/4) of the book covers the Visual BASIC language and assumes no prior knowledge so if you're a complete beginner or maybe you've experience with other languages but not this one, then this is definitely the book for you. It walks you through the language with supporting code made available for each topic to help you with your understanding.
The latter part of the book is most likely to be the most exciting as this is where you will apply your Visual BASIC knowledge to build applications specifically for the control, communications and monitoring of your own Electronics projects. The book covers the following :
* Serial Communications
* Printer Ports
* Bit-Banging
* Protocol Emulation
* ISA
* USB
* Ethernet Interfacing
* Remote Control of test equipment via GPIB
* Communication via TCP/IP and UDP
* Internet Servers
