General Program Workflow

This section summarizes very briefly the steps that an application would use to acquire images using DTWAIN.  Please note that this is a brief summary only -- more advanced techniques are described in the DTWAIN Advanced Topics section.

If you are using C/C++, C#, or VB.NET, the Examples directory contains a nice demonstration program that shows many of the features of DTWAIN.  

For C/C++, the Examples\C\DTwdemo folder contains a Visual C++ project plus source files.

For C#, the Examples\CSharp\FullDemo contains a Visual C# project plus source files.

For Visual Basic .NET and above, the Examples\VB.NET contains a Visual C++ project and source files.

If you are using Visual C++ earlier than Visual Studio 2005, or if you're using a different integrated environment altogether, you will need to set up your projects to include the necessary files.

If you are using another language other than C/C++, C#, and Visual Basic, we have not developed full demonstration programs, but instead you can start with the smaller programs in the Simple DTWAIN program section.