USB programming - using win32 for USB interfacing

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I have a task to make a USB driven scanner to be accessible across the network . Can anyone please lead me how I can develope a USB programming project using win32 APIs?
Search in MSDN or net has not yielded anything tangible other than reference to WDM, DDK etc ...

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Posted 5-Dec-11 0:35am

dharani

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2011-12-05T02:18:00

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The first thing you need to do is to get a copy of the programming manual for the device you wish to use, and learn the interface. If you want to make the device shareable then I think you will need to write a driver so that means learning device driver code which you can study here[^].

Posted 5-Dec-11 2:18am

Richard MacCutchan

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dharani 6-Dec-11 0:19am

Hi Richard
Thanks I started looking into the WDK stuff. Actually I am thinking of a global solution to share all USB devices to the network in which the PC with USB is connected . Can WMI help me with it ? I can see in net that some products like fabulatech.com , incentivespro.com are supporting USB over Net for almost all USB enabled devices which means they are having a global solution not pertaining to a single device type ...

Richard MacCutchan 6-Dec-11 4:10am

Sorry, I don't know the answers; I'm afraid you will have to do your own research on these subjects.