Sometimes we require to communicate with an external device like a printer, microcontroller board or any serial device using the serial port of a windows machine. There is a lot of serial application available like Hercules, HyperTerminal, Docklight, ..etc. We can use any one of them for serial communication but sometimes we require to create our
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I have worked on the windows printer driver, where I have to install the port monitor silently without user interaction. It is a user-mode DLL which responsible for providing a communications path between the user-mode print spooler and the kernel-mode port drivers that access I/O port hardware. You can also check the below article, How
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In my one project, I need to create an application to upgrade the firmware of the device. Here comport is using for the communication. We cannot fix the COM ID of the USB device in the application because the device could be enumerated with different com id on a different machine as per the availability.
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If you are the windows application or driver developer, then might be you need to access the windows registry. In this article, I will describe the way to how to create and access the key in windows registry. Here, I am assuming you are familiar with windows internals and API. If you are not familiar
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The volatile keyword is a qualifier it has a lot of importance in the programming language but problem is that many programmers are not aware of how to use the volatile keyword and when need to qualify a variable from the volatile keyword. Most of the textbooks don’t give importance to this topic either and
volatile keyword in C ( or volatile qualifier in C) Read More »