Serial Port Emulation

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Hi there,

I wanted to make an application to detect Serial Ports and retrieve the device names of the Emulated ones. This is because in w7 device manager the emulated COM ports dont show their number and when i use several devices gets kind of messy to configure all of them in another app.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance...

Posted 30-Jun-10 1:34am

jbravofaria

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Dalek Dave 24-Jul-10 15:54pm

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DaveAuld · Answer 1 · 2010-07-23T20:31:00

Solution 1

You can enumerate the available serial Port names using the following code;

VB.NET

For Each item As String In My.Computer.Ports.SerialPortNames
    Debug.Print(item)
Next

Posted 23-Jul-10 20:31pm

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Dalek Dave 24-Jul-10 15:55pm

Good Answer.

Archit9373284448 · Answer 2 · 2010-07-24T08:49:00

Solution 2

Dim s1 As String
For Each s1 In SerialPort.GetPortNames()
    msgbox(s1)
Next s1

Posted 24-Jul-10 8:49am

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