Hi,

I am newbie using Visual Basic, and I was trying to use it in a project
that uses a data acquisition board via a RS232 link.
But, reading the VB 5.0 online manual I realizaed that there isnt a
way  to handle hardware interrupts like C++ do.
Please, does anybody knows how to deal with this problem.

Thanks.

Hi Pascal,

Normally, you don't want to try to handle interrupts yourself.  Windows
imposes substantial penalties (and complexity) to this process.

Fortunately, however, for serial communications, Windows built-in interrupt
service routines are superior to any that you might, reasonably, code
yourself.  Access to these can be via the Windows API (hard, but it can be
done), or by using a comms add-on.  MSComm comes with the Pro or Enterprise
versions of VB.  This is satisfactory for the majority of data acquisition
applications.  There also are a number of commercial comms add-on
manufacturers that add additional capability.

I detail all of this, from the API through MSComm, and various commercial
add-ons, in my book (see below for information).  I have a number of
project examples in my book that might be similar to what you have to do
(for example, I have a Data Logger example).

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