USB Devices Interfacing

[LabView/LabWindows/CVI]

Dear Friends,
I am a new programmer in Labview ,facinated by the GUI and Easyness of Labview, i thought of doing something inovative. I have no background of programming but my fast grabbing capability may help me alot. We have Labview FDS 6.1 with us and i am much interested to work on USB Devices such as camera and Pen Drives etc for interfacing.
Can i do this how ? please help me.
Rajeev

[Jeremy Braden]

There is the easy way and then there is the hard way to communicate to USB devices. The easy way is when the manufacturer of the device gives you a driver that handles the USB calls to the device. LabVIEW can use both a driver that has an ActiveX server or a dll call. The real key is getting documentation on the calls. This is very important to your overall success. The hard method also requires documentation about the device and concerns writing your own USB driver. LabVIEW has some provisions for writing USB drivers but you might consider C instead for this task. Chances are that any examples that come with the documentation will be in this language. This method is really tough. The first method can range from very easy to moderatly tough.