how to communicate with other hardware..?

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hi,
I have no knowledge on how I can make my program to communicate with some other hardware, but i wanna learn.. So i decided to ask you guys if you can give me some direction..

I want to make a communication with the hardware, but i wanna know what data is send to the computer when some action is taken on the external hardware (it is a Controller/Networking Reader (i don't know if i can link or not (cause of rules) the actual product) and i also wanna know on how can i send some data to the hardware. The pc is connected true the USB port with the hardware. I have few files that should help in the communication: 2x .dll files (Comm.dll & Socket.dll), 2x .lib files (Comm.lib & Socket.lib), 2x .h files (Comm.h & Socket.h) and 2x .def files (also comm.def & socket.def)..
I wanna make my program in C#. So far i read few articles about .dll files ..& etc, but it only made me more confused..

So any intro/direction on how to proceed?

Thanks in forward..

Posted 17-Apr-11 1:40am

Xonfused

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For communicating with hardware you can make use of C language.
You can do your programming in c# and for hardware functinality function you can make use of C which could be combined to your C#program with help of dll(Like in Java we make use of jni so that we can connect our java program with a C language module)

Posted 17-Apr-11 2:25am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-17T02:23:00

Solution 1

Just open a SerialPort[^] and you can talk directly to it. This is directly built into .NET so you don't need external DLL files!

Posted 17-Apr-11 2:23am

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