The popularity of serial communications demands that additional serial port interfaces be developed to meet the expanding requirements of users. The Windows Serial Port Programming Handbook illustrates the principles and methods of developing various serial port interfaces using multiple languages. This comprehensive, hands-on, and practical guide

A TAPI tutorial for the Windows C++ developer, including several applications and a C++ class library developed to make Windows telephony more accesible. The key audiences are Windows developers and telephony programmers.

Communications will play a central role in the computer applications of the next decade. The core of these applications is asynchronous serial communication. This book includes both theoretical and practical discussions of this topic, allowing programmers and technically advanced users to build their own C programming library of functions for serial communications.

Annotation This book provides a detailed description about the practical considerations in multiple languages programming as well as the interfaces among different languages in the Window environment. Authentic examples and detailed explanations are combined together in this book to provide the readers a clear picture as how to handle the multiple languages programming in Windows.

Why purchase expensive add-on cards or bus interfaces when you can develop effective and economical data acquisition and process controls using C programs? Using the under-employed printer adapter (that is, the parallel port of your PC), you can turn your computer into a powerful tool for developing microprocessor applications. Learn how to build a

Authoritative and comprehensive, this text examines the executable Internet from practical and strategic perspectives, providing a roadmap for building applications that deliver X Internet capabilities. From a strategic angle, it delves into the legal aspects of using and creating this new breed of Internet applications.

Addressing a variety of organizational issues, Data Mining Methods and Applications presents a compilation of recent research works on data mining and forecasting techniques, including multivariate, evolutionary, and neural net methods. This book focuses in particular on data mining techniques used for conducting marketing research. Written by a wide range of contributors from academia and industry, this text provides detailed descriptions of applications in numerous areas, such as finance, engineering, healthcare, economics, science, and management. Real-world case studies that are supported by theoretical chapters offer guidance on how to actually perform data mining methods.

Software developer and author Karen Hazzah expands her original treatise on device drivers in the second edition of Writing Windows VxDs and Device Drivers. The book and companion disk include the author's library of wrapper functions that allow the progr Find out why MSDN has called this book 'the only really systematic and thorough introduction to VxD writing.' For this second edition, Karen Hazzah has included expanded coverage of Windows 95.