Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Parallel port programming in Visual Basic

In here I basically focused on using the parallel port to output data. For that I used Data outputs in the port. We can output a maximum of 8 bit data using a 25 pin parallel port.


In a 25 pin parallel port connector there are three types of ports to receive or send data.

  • Data ports - From D0 to D7
  • Status ports - From S0 to S7 (Though there are 8 status ports only 5 are visible)
  • Control ports - From C0 to C7 (Though there are 8 control ports only 4 are visible)

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