(Excel) Gather Smartcard Debug Information for Chilkat

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This example demonstrates how to gather information to send to support@chilkatsoft.com about your smartcard.

Note: This functionality was introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

Note: The ScMinidriver functionality is for Windows-only because ScMinidriver DLLs only exist on Windows. In the next version, Chilkat will be releasing a Pkcs11 class to support Linux, MacOSX, and possibly other operating systems.

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' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' First, Chilkat recommends downloading the MGTEK Smartcard Minidriver Tool to get information 
' about your smartcard. 

' The tool can be downloaded from https://www.mgtek.com/smartcard

' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' 1. Select the smartcard as shown below and send Chilkat a screenshot of the basic smartcard information.
' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' 

' 
' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' 2. Select the cmapfile (if present) as shown below and send Chilkat a screenshot of the CSP container map
' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' 

' 

' ---------------------------------------------------------
' Chilkat provides functions to get information about the smartcard, and what it contains.
' Send Chilkat the output of the following source code:

Dim scmd As Chilkat.ScMinidriver
Set scmd = Chilkat.NewScMinidriver

' Reader names (smart card readers or USB tokens) can be discovered
' via PCSC List Readers or PCSC Find Smart Cards

readerName = "Alcor Micro USB Smart Card Reader 0"

success = scmd.AcquireContext(readerName)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.Print scmd.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim json As Chilkat.JsonObject
Set json = Chilkat.NewJsonObject
json.EmitCompact = False

' ------------------------------------------------------
' 3. Send Chilkat the JSON returned by GetCardProperties
' ------------------------------------------------------
success = scmd.GetCardProperties(json)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.Print scmd.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print json.Emit()

' ------------------------------------------------------
' 4. Send Chilkat the JSON returned by GetCspContainerMap
' ------------------------------------------------------
json.Clear 
success = scmd.GetCspContainerMap(json)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.Print scmd.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print json.Emit()