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Title: Serial Communications Developer's Guide by Mark Nelson ISBN: 0-7645-4570-1 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Reader From England
Comment: I recently purchased this book for my Meng Project, involving
controlling a vision head focus,zoom through a pic serial port connected to a pc with vision modelling.
I am surprised, that the code is written in a fashion which is
totally unbearable, hard to understand and just reflects the authors perception and imagination rather than discussing the
important communication building blocks and instructions.
Its totally ambigious to distinguish the original c++ routines and the invented commands written in form of classes.
I think if i read through all that material in header files i will lag so behind completing my original project.....
The paper quality is poor and not very pleasant to read.

Rating: 5
Summary: Serial Communications
Comment: I bought this book to learn how to program Win32 serial communications. It's obvious that the author knows his stuff. Chapters 3 thru 9 apply to MS-DOS and are not really relevant anymore. Otherwsie the source code is a excellent study in how to write a class library in C++ in addition to multithreading which, by themselves, make the book worth the price.

I used the libraries to write an ActiveX control that has an interface that only a FoxPro programmer would love. My money was well spent.

Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent source for Windows applications
Comment: Although the book requires a lot of reading, it describes the use of the CD's source code in great detail. Included source code is for both DOS applications, DOS programs running as "Terminal" applications under Windows as well as for Windows applications.

Microsoft's MSComm Active X is ok where dialog based Windows applications are desired. But in a Windows 98 application that rapidly sends, receives and checks incoming data without user input, this software is an absolute MUST to have.

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