Help With USB Port Programming

I need some guidance on working with USB ports in VB2005 express.

I have just started looking at it and don't seem to find much info.
Specifically I am looking for someone to point me in the right direction rather then
supply code, but an example would be nice.

I have a driver supplied by Garmin and I guess I have to assign the GUID
to an “object” to work with the device. 
But What “object” am I looking for and where is it located... System.IO.something  

Next Would I build an Interface to the “Object” and then build a class to
handle the interaction with the “object” 

From What Little I have been able to find out It looks like I will be 
able to use the serial class to do a lot of the work.
But at This point I don't know if I am even in the right ballpark with any
of this.

I am an old retired guy, just trying to learn about this programing stuff,
so keep it simple if you can.

Thanks

Visual Studio Express Editions41

I took a quick look at their SDK, it is a VS6 sample program written in 'C'. It has all the necessary voodoo to find the USB device and talk to the USB driver. Unfortunately, you'll have major problems to make this work in VB.NET, you'll need loads of very difficult P/Invoke. Two things you could do: give them a call and point out that their SDK is hopelessly outdated and, humbly, ask for an update. Or download the Visual Studio Visual C Express edition and write a C++/CLI wrapper around the SDK code.

I'd try the phone call first...

Thanks, I liked the idea of using the CLI and the
C++ wrapper, I did some C years and years ago as
a hobby So I loaded Garmins SDK into C++ express
and got an error on the Windows.H (header) file.
After some more research it seems that the
express version of C++ only supports Net/CLI 
NOT Native Windows Development...Off topic, but 
there is some heated discussions about that.

Anyway this is all a learning experence, so I am
still looking and reading.

Any other Ideas  

Dave

No problemo, you can download and install the PlatformSDK to get VCExpress to play with windows.h; instructions to do so are here...

OK Thanks, that has me off and running. I have serious learning to do....
Dave