PIC USB to VB.NET

[cncmachineguy]

Thank you both. I guess you are off the hook now steve . I will have to digest this (mostly the vb side) but I do THANK YOU both.!!!

[mister_e]

In the beginning earth was empty

Then someone says



May the force be with you

[cncmachineguy]

So does HID fall in the catagory of "pure USB"?

[mister_e]

HID is a generic USB class, does not require specific driver, could be considered as pure USB... at least the most simple way to develop painless USB stuff.

I still dream Melabs would consider porting Microchip USB framework so PBP user would access other USB Class such as Audio, MIDI and such. We already have mouse & Keyboard (joystick maybe?!?)... why they've stopped there?

[Darrel Taylor]

Who stopped where?
The Microchip USB "framework" is already in PBP.

You can make your own descriptor files and code for all kinds of stuff.
The mouse, HID and CDC examples are there to show you how it's done.

Would you expect DMX, MODBUS or NMEA 2000 to be included just because there's an HSEROUT command?

[mister_e]

I know that Darrel, I can even make my own compiler if I would like to. That's not the whole point. Seems pretty obvious you don't have a clue of what's all in the Microchip Framework then.

LCDOUT & GLCD a load ask because they can't, It's somehow easy when you take time to eat/digest the datasheet...

But still there's a MAJOR difference between simple serial/parrallel stuff on various baudrate VS USB Class & Descriptors... kinda black magic for A LOAD of people.

Arduino, Atmel have other class already made in their free compiler, I would expect Melabs be open minded to do it for their paid compiler.

It's a simple suggestion, for the real few time I ask something, don't be so defensive buddy... I love you

[dhouston]

Arduino, Atmel have other class already made in their free compiler, I would expect Melabs be open minded to do it for their paid compiler.

Well, life's too short (especially, in my case) to argue with either you or Darrell who both seem to know this subject far better than I do but, I was reading the installation instructions for the Arduino and learned that neither Linux nor OSX need any drivers to connect with its USB link (Windows only needs an .inf file). It shows up in Windows as a COM port so I assume it appears as a serial port in the others as well. However, the Arduino is using a rather powerful Atmel ATMega8U2 32-pin MCU just for USB->serial so it's understandable (at least to a dim-witted geezer like me) that Microchip might not be able to accomplish quite the same thing with a single MCU.