Hello,
the follwoing 2 challenges needs to be tackled/solved:
A customer enters a fitness studio and his customer card (magnet card) is pulled thru a magnet card reader.
Magnet card reader looks like this: http://www.tlsoftware.de/tl-software/magnetkartenleser.htm
As you can see the plug/interface is a simple keyboard addition.
The data on the magnet card is one number - lets say 6 digits - the membership number.
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Challenge 1:
How do I get this data into a textbox of a VB.NET form?
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Now the next step - Challenge 2:
The client on the PC should now send a request over the Internet to a web database (mysql) and should ask for all the related data of this member.
Which could a picture of the person, membership status, already checked in... aso.)
The data is send back and displayed in a form.
How could this be managed?
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A friend of mine will develope a solution for this in C++/GTK. For commercial reasons we cannot wait too long, but I still want to learn how to solve this in VB.NET.
Thanks a lot for any suggestions!
the follwoing 2 challenges needs to be tackled/solved:
A customer enters a fitness studio and his customer card (magnet card) is pulled thru a magnet card reader.
Magnet card reader looks like this: http://www.tlsoftware.de/tl-software/magnetkartenleser.htm
As you can see the plug/interface is a simple keyboard addition.
The data on the magnet card is one number - lets say 6 digits - the membership number.
---
Challenge 1:
How do I get this data into a textbox of a VB.NET form?
---
Now the next step - Challenge 2:
The client on the PC should now send a request over the Internet to a web database (mysql) and should ask for all the related data of this member.
Which could a picture of the person, membership status, already checked in... aso.)
The data is send back and displayed in a form.
How could this be managed?
---
A friend of mine will develope a solution for this in C++/GTK. For commercial reasons we cannot wait too long, but I still want to learn how to solve this in VB.NET.
Thanks a lot for any suggestions!