Fingerprint security

Hi... i'm new to this site... my name is Vineet Abraham... I'm a biginner in VB, just started to learn some stuff in school. I have this big techno prject to do for school. What i am planning to do is a fingerprint security for a car by using VB. I already have the fingerprint scanner and the software. How do i make VB read the fingerprints. I'm been talking to people and researching and i know i have to get an SDK from the software company and also i have to use Active X Controls in VB. But what do i do with Active X?

Take a look at the links I gave on this thread to get started with ActiveX in visual Basic...

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hlight=activex

I might be just repeating what you've already been told here, but for any hardware such as this you're normally provided with a Software Development Kit (SDK).

This will comprise (probably) of a series of dll files which will have sub and functions available for you to call from your vb code. Within vb, you can goto the project menu > references option to point to these dll files. Once this has been setup, you can then hit F2, or click onto the object browser icon in the vb toolbar to look at everything the dll exposes which you can call on, with a link for each one of these found to the helpfile for this topic.

All SDK's I've installed have loads of help & sample code in them, so providing this hardware company make an sdk, I wouldn't panic too much :p :)