USB to send ASCII characters to PC

[Ioannis]

Unfortunately I am not qualified to write PC apps... Too pity that once I started to do things in C (command line environment) and a little Visual Basic 6 but did not evolve on that.

Thanks anyway,
Ioannis

[mpgmike]

I started working with PC apps about 5 years ago. I bought Visual Studio 2015 Professional and 5 books on the subject. Although VS 2019 is out, the books probably update with the versioning. One I recommend to get you functional (at a cheap price) is:

Visual Basic in easy steps
www.ineasysteps.com
My 4th (2015) Edition has ISBN: 978-1-84078-701-6
I bought it on Amazon. It's only 192 pages and covers only the essentials. It was the cheapest and thinest of the 5 books I bought, yet covers topics like data bases that the thicker more expensive books gloss over.

As for connecting the PC to a PIC via USB, I have been using HIDmaker; although I have also been able to get Microchip's MLA (in C for MPLABX) templates to work as well.

[towlerg]

@Ioannis What would you want an app to do with the data? If some kind code elf were to create an app for you it would make more sense to us Vendor (otherwise known as Custom) which is a variation of HID but needs an app to talk to.

[Ioannis]

Mike:
Thanks for the interesting book. It made me look at VB again. The last app I did was in VB6 and liked that I was able to make an exe or an installer. When I check again in VB2015, the IDE was unbelievable huge and there seemed that the installer creator was not there anymore. There was something about manifests... I lost it.

Towlerg:
Thanks for the offer. I am collecting the requirements and after that I may need a PC app that would read data from a RFiD card and show on screen, copy to clipboard or enter it in a database, excel file or similar.