Serial Port Complete: COM Ports, USB Virtual COM Ports, and Ports for Embedded Systems (Complete Guides series) 2nd Edition

I'm an Electrical engineer and software engineer expanding into IoT and integrating devices into software projects. This book opened up a flood gate of creative thought for me. It includes examples of .NET code used for communication through a serial port. I have gone on and bought every book by this author since it is so perfectly in alignment with my career goal of IoT development. This book and Arduino hardware have turbo charged my path. Thanks to the author for writing it!

Guess I'm old fashioned. I would have preferred a paper book over the Kindle version. Outstanding comprehensive content! If you want your project to be a success, read this book.

I needed detailed info on RS-485 ports and this book provided it. Worth the money even though I only read a small part of it.

I like that this book covers the hardware AND the software (VB for me). Serial is still very prevalent in industrial applications, so this helped explain a number of things. Certainly better than any white pages I've read.

This has been a well regarded book for many years. For good or ill, serial ports are pretty much on the way out for most of us. That is really too bad, because USB introduces a level of complexity that is pointless and cumbersome for a great many applications. But that is what happens when you let Bill Gates run everything. Anyway, if you still use serial, this is a handy reference.

Worse series of books ever... don't buy it!

Product just as expected. Thank you

I was really eager to get this book because I thought it would include a lot of technical info about communicating with different devices. The book ended up being a general overview of different forms of communication. Many sections were 5 or 6 pages long about different types.This book is very good for people who just want a general and basic knowledge of different forms of communication. I guess I was looking for how to interface Zigbee modules to different AVR micro controllers and how to send different types of data via USB, it was not deep or specific enough for me.

Es realment el que jo esperava.

Ouvrage très complet sur un sujet d'apparence simple. Le livre est bien organisé, la mise en page très austère (un peu de couleur ? non ? Bon tant pis). Le contenu est riche, et c'est écrit de manière claire.Gros inconvénient en revanche, les programmes intégrés. Souvent en deux langages, notamment VB et VC#. On aurait pu faire plus portable et ce ne sont pas des langages très utilisés dans les systèmes embarqués que l'ouvrage prétend prendre pour cible. De plus, ils cachent un autre défaut : plutôt que donner une formule claire pour calculer une donnée, un temps de propagation, par exemple, il faut se contenter d'un listing en VB, avec une formule résumée qui ne contient qu'une ou deux constantes non expliquées. Dommage. On notera aussi l'utilisation d'unités non métriques.

Un collage di informazioni gia' ben note, con pochi approfondimenti relativi alla parte di USB virtual COM, supporto per sistemi embedded,... sapendo gia' ben programmare le porte seriali mi aspettavo molto da questo libro ma devo dire sono rimasto un po deluso.Comunque per un primer puo' essere una buona guida, titolo piu' giusto sarebbe introduzione alle porte seriali e non serial port "complete"

und im Internet nicht wirklich gefunden hat.Ich war lange auf der suche nach Informationen über den COM Port. Leider findet man im Internet nicht wirklich gut Informationen. Speziell das Thema .Net und COM findet man nur "bla bla" die gern auf eigene Software hinweisen. Aber es geht auch mit .Net 2 Bordmittel und das einfacher als in den MSDN Seiten erwähnt.Also, wenn man wirklich gute Informationen sucht und nicht nur Oberflächliches kommt man an einem buch nicht drum rum.Daher erhält dieses Buch meine Kaufempfehlung.

I am updating a VB6 program to VB2008.NET. In addition I need to use USB virtual COM ports instead of 'real' RS232 ports My VB6/real port system works fine. VB6/virtual kind of works, but there are variations up to 30ms in the arrival time through the virtual port and this makes the system not fit for its purpose, which is to time bells striking. I have changed the system so that the interface electronics not only detects which bell has rung, but also times when it rang and this data is sent to the PC. The interface thus has to send 4 bytes of data to the PC: the bell number followed by a 24-bit time value in ms. Again, the VB6/real port system worked well, but not VB6/virtual.Jan's book is proving very useful in helping me transfer from using MSCOMM components to using the SerialPort class. She doesn't have any information of using VB6 to drive virtual COM ports, so I have given up on that. I think the only part of the book I will use immediately is Chapter 9: Using .NET's SerialPort Class, but hopefully this alone will make the purchase worthwhile. I could do with a few more example code snippets, but the ones she gives (in VB and VC#) are very helpful to me. I am not well versed in OOP so don't fully understand some of her information about Friends, Delegates, etcThe early parts of the book cover general aspects of serial communication, and she gives a lot of detailed information here about the various specifications. She covers general aspects of networks, and she goes into detail about using PIC microcontrollers for serial communications.The final chapters focus on USB itself. Skimming through these indicates a lot of potentially useful information should I decide to do away with my RS232 link between the interface and the PC and replace with all USB. The advice from the early part of the book, however, is that RS232 will probably work better for me over the kind of distances I need at the low speeds I use.