How do I get the port addresses of the my identical keyboards connected in one PC?

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I know vb can communicate with serial ports. And it works with a device that provides an address like COM1, COM2 and so on..

But my project is about keyboards and barcode scanners which doesn't provide address like COM1.
I want to detect the address of these keyboards. Because I want to use one of the keyboards connected and get its port address and then the program will automatically know which keyboard is being used. (note: all of my keyboard is identical)

First, I want to know if is it possible to get the USB port addresses. If so,
second is I want to know what LIBRARY that I need to import and what are the functions I must declare.

I have my codes done. And this is only the missing code. As I have said, I'm not sure if this is possible. I hope it does. Thanks!

Posted 25-Feb-15 2:55am

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DamithSL 25-Feb-15 9:50am

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Philippe Mori 25-Feb-15 12:22pm

As far as I know, this is not possible except if you would write your own driver... That kind of information is not available at API level and much less at .NET level.

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