A lot of developers programming in the Windows environment often come across the problem that they cannot access hardware resources. As soon as an application tries to access the i/o port of some device, an exception occurs and the application is terminated with an error. The situation is not better concerning accessing physical memory addresses: due to the mechanisms of memory protection and page translation, you will never be able to access the physical memory of your computer. The only way out in this situation is to write your own kernel-mode driver that will be performing all privileged operations. Taking into account the fact that drivers for different operating systems from the Windows family have different architecture, this task will likely to cause considerable expenses in developers' efforts and time.
Active Port Pro is an ActiveX control used for controlling and managing any types of hardware devices via i/o ports, as well as for accessing the physical memory of a computer. Active Port Pro has been initially developed to make programming hardware devices in the Windows environment as easy as possible. With Active Port Pro, a lot of complex operations that usually take much time and become a headache for developers are performed completely imperceptibly and often even without a single line of code. At present, Active Port Pro is compatible with all commonly used programming languages (including .NET languages) and with all operating systems of the Windows family (including Windows 2003).
What Active Port Pro is used for:
1. Fast direct access to the i/o ports of various hardware devices.
As you know, operating systems based on Windows NT (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) forbid accessing the i/o ports of hardware from user applications. This restriction is due to the fact that by default i/o operations from user applications are forbidden in a special internal operating system table called an...
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When the user clicks the hyperlink created with Advanced Link, his default b...
