Printing directly to LPT/COM

Tony

I have this in VB6

Open "lpt1" For Output As #1
Print #1, "abc"
Close (1)

How to do this in VB.NET? I am trying with FileOpen but it doesnt work. Can
anyone help?

Thanks

Jun 27 '08 #1

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Dick Grier

Hi,

There are a couple of ways.

You can download IONet.dll from my homepage (a device driver wrapper that
allows direct access to physical LPT ports, but not virtual ones, such as
USB), or: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322090/en-us

Dick

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Jun 27 '08 #2

MikeD

"Tony" <to*****@gmail.comwrote in message
news:g2**********@sunce.iskon.hr...

>I have this in VB6

Open "lpt1" For Output As #1
Print #1, "abc"
Close (1)

How to do this in VB.NET? I am trying with FileOpen but it doesnt work.
Can anyone help?

You're best off asking this in a dotnet newsgroup.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

Jun 27 '08 #3

MikeD

"MikeD" <no****@nowhere.eduwrote in message
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>
"Tony" <to*****@gmail.comwrote in message
news:g2**********@sunce.iskon.hr...
>>I have this in VB6

Open "lpt1" For Output As #1
Print #1, "abc"
Close (1)

How to do this in VB.NET? I am trying with FileOpen but it doesnt work.
Can anyone help?

You're best off asking this in a dotnet newsgroup.

Duh! I now see you did crosspost to a dotnet newsgroup. For the record, the
microsoft.public.vb.* newsgroups are for VB6 and earlier. In the future,
please don't include them in crossposts for dotnet-related questions.
Thanks!

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

Jun 27 '08 #4

steve907

On Jun 12, 7:20 pm, "MikeD" <nob...@nowhere.eduwrote:

"MikeD" <nob...@nowhere.eduwrote in message

news:eX**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

"Tony" <tony...@gmail.comwrote in message
news:g2**********@sunce.iskon.hr...
>I have this in VB6

Open "lpt1" For Output As #1
Print #1, "abc"
Close (1)

How to do this in VB.NET? I am trying with FileOpen but it doesnt work.
Can anyone help?

You're best off asking this in a dotnet newsgroup.

Duh! I now see you did crosspost to a dotnet newsgroup. For the record, the
microsoft.public.vb.* newsgroups are for VB6 and earlier. In the future,
please don't include them in crossposts for dotnet-related questions.
Thanks!

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

Now I'm confused. Isn't this a dotnet newsgroup?

Jun 27 '08 #5

Jim Mack

steve907 wrote:

On Jun 12, 7:20 pm, "MikeD" <nob...@nowhere.eduwrote:
>"MikeD" <nob...@nowhere.eduwrote in message

news:eX**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>>"Tony" <tony...@gmail.comwrote in message
news:g2**********@sunce.iskon.hr...
I have this in VB6

>>> Open "lpt1" For Output As #1
Print #1, "abc"
Close (1)

>>>How to do this in VB.NET? I am trying with FileOpen but it
doesnt work. Can anyone help?

>>You're best off asking this in a dotnet newsgroup.

Duh! I now see you did crosspost to a dotnet newsgroup. For the
record, the microsoft.public.vb.* newsgroups are for VB6 and
earlier. In the future, please don't include them in crossposts
for dotnet-related questions. Thanks!

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic

Now I'm confused. Isn't this a dotnet newsgroup?

There is no "this", there's a "these" -- two incompatible groups.

The OP cross-posted to two NGs. Groups with "dotnet" in their names
are indeed for dotnet. Groups with just ".public.vb." in their names
are not. Hence the confusion.

Just to clarify: microsoft.public.vb.winapi is NOT a dotnet group.

--
Jim

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