Parallel port and Visual Basic?

I am in the process of building a circuit that will monitor the start and
finish times for pine box derby cars. I would like to be able to catch these
events by feeding signals, through the parallel port, to a Visual Basic
program. I was thinking of using the eight data pins from the parallel port
to monitor eight lanes.

The electronics are good to go. My problem is with Visual Basic.

Does anyone know how to access and capture bit patterns from the parallel
port using Visual Basic?

Steve

PS...I have asked this same question in several programming newsgroups, but
I have not recieved any responses.


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