I have assembled a K8063 project, and I downloaded the software driver. Velleman mention in the manual that they’re happy for people to use this as a model to write their own, and this is what I need to do, as I’m working in VB.NET. Can someone please tell me which of the sub-files of the download is the actual code? I can’t seem to find it. Has anyone converted this code to VB.NET?
There is only one download available: download
The test software has source code in VB 6.0 (you need to install the test program). By opening the source code you can see that it uses a COM component (MSCOMM32.OCX) to communicate over RS232 since VB 6.0 didn’t have any built-in way to access a serial port.
In VB.NET 2.0 or higher you would be using the SerialPort class to take over this task. The K8063’s protocol looks very simple as well.
Have fun!