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Title: Automating Science and Engineering Laboratories with Visual Basic by Mark F. Russo, Martin M. Echols ISBN: 0-471-25493-2 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 19 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful addition to your reference library...
Comment: I am surprised at some of the negative reviews of this book. This book contains some very useful material especially the TCP/IP and Parser Class topics. The only reason that I didn't give it five stars is because of the space wasted on a review of the Visual Basic Language. I used some of the ideas in this book in a VB Human Machine Interface (HMI) application that I developed. The source code is available at ....
Rating: 5
Summary: Nice book on Automation with Visual Basic
Comment: If you want to study Visual Basic with this book, it may not be a right choice. However, if you want to do automation with VB, this is a right book. Several topics in this book are very useful to me. 1)Communication methods with VB. One of the foundamental thing in automatic control of devices/instrument is to establish the communication between computer and devices/instrument. Several useful methods are covered. They are Dynamic Data Exchange(DDE), RS232(computer serial communication), and TCP/IP. This book will not enable you to understand in deep details what's really going on in RS232 or TCP/IP communications, but this book will definitely enable you to implement these methods. Actually, in most cases if not all, we do not need to know what's really going on in RS232 or TCP/IP communications at all. 2)Device control and data handling. This part covers how to handle the data transferred in communication--parsing, and control multiple devices/instrument. 3)Graphic interfaces, which will enable developers to build a friendly interface between the control system and end users. Please do not overlook this, it is most probably that the users' commends on your system depend a lot on this interface, because this is what they can see and handle with.
This book is one of the valuable books on my shelf, and I would like to recomment to other people. Anyway, all depends on what you need and what you expect. This is just my 2 cents.
Good luck in finding a book valuable for your use.
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of Time and Money
Comment: Based on the earlier reviews, I though this is a good book to read. But I was wrong. I think all earlier reviewers (other than one review that rated it one star) probably do not know how to use help in Visual Basic. If you want to use PCs for monitoring project, just read VB help for comm port control. This book is full of examples and not much explaination about understanding of serial communication. I totally agree with review of December 9, 1999 that any one who has any knowledge of VB should not buy this. Reading this book was a total waste of time and money.
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Title: Serial Port Complete by Jan Axelson, Janet Louise Axelson, Jan Axelson ISBN: 0965081923 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications 3 by Richard Grier ISBN: 1890422274 Publisher: Mabry Software, Inc. Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Parallel Port Complete: Programming, Interfacing & Using the PC'S Parallel Printer Port by Jan Axelson ISBN: 0965081915 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Creating Human Machine Interfaces Using Visual Basic by Jeff Weigant ISBN: 0966312066 Publisher: Jeff Weigant Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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Title: USB Complete: Everything You Need to Develop Custom USB Peripherals by Jan Axelson ISBN: 0965081958 Publisher: Lakeview Research Pub. Date: 15 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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