As all of you can tell from the title, I need help understanding how to communicate to a USB port. Basically I need to send some bits to a usb micro controller and to do so I need to understand how you do it in C for both a Windows and Linux computers. I'm going to be creating my own interface (still figuring that out) which basically works by having the micro controller send out a signal so I can figure out what port it's on and from then on I just start sending the bits to it.

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So here's a breakdown of what I need to know.

1. When the data exits the port to the device, will it have the port address with it when the device reads in the data?
2. I'm going to be working with Ubuntu and Win XP, what things will I need to utilize from the OS?
3. Would you recommend a better way to interface to USB?
4. Do I have to repeatedly send a signal when trying to find which usb port the device is on?

Hi hashingsmurf,Welcome to MSDN forum.I think you are looking for this solution, you could follow below steps to keep your console window open and then run the exe file.(1) First of all, like what you said, find the exe file (fromSolution Explorer - select and right-click your application - in context menu - chooseOpen Folder in File Explorer - a File Explorer window in your application solution folder will be opened - open the Release folder and find the exe file).(2) Select your exe file, hold down the Shift key and right-click to open the context menu. ChooseCopy as path to copy the path to your app to the clipboard.(3) Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog and type cmd.exe in the Open textbox, then choose OK to rum a command prompt window.(4) In the command prompt window, right-click to paste the path to your app into the command prompt.

As you can tell I'm kind of jumping into this without know what I'm getting myself into. I'm open to any suggestions (other than giving up).

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How Does Usb C Know Which Device To Charge

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You may have to write a driver for the USB device or uterlize it as a communications port as say you do with usb serial adapters or things like that.

What Does Usb-c In Dev Terms

The windows device foundation SDK has methods for dealing with USB devices ( and also quite possable some sample code. ) Documentation can be found here.

What Are Usb C Devices

The windows device foundation also allows you to write a usermode driver, if you don't want to risk crashing windows :P.