Com port Serial Communication.

[John O.]

I have an external Modum connected to Com1 Port on my PC. I would like to
configure ( Baoud rate, etc.. ) the Com1 port and send out a string of characters
to the Modum to dial out a phone number. I looked through the .NET class
library and could not find a Class to deal with this.
Thank you for the help.

[Patrick Steele]

In article <3c42da69$1@147.208.176.211> (from John O.
<OTABACHIANO@NIMO>),
>
> I have an external Modum connected to Com1 Port on my PC. I would like to
> configure ( Baoud rate, etc.. ) the Com1 port and send out a string of characters
> to the Modum to dial out a phone number. I looked through the .NET class
> library and could not find a Class to deal with this.

You'll need to either use COM-Interop with the MSComm ActiveX control or
use the windows API directly. There's currently no direct support for
COM ports in .NET. See:

http://csharpindex.com/code/justinIO.asp

X10 Firecracker (Beta 2)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/defau...de/sample.asp?
url=/msdn-files/026/002/414/msdncompositedoc.xml

http://www.corrado.f2s.com/VBNetRs232.htm

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Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP

[Dick Grier]

Hi,

I have VB.NET example code prepared of the 3rd Edition of my book (due out
by Feb 13). However, I suggest that you consider using MSComm (the
Microsoft Communications control) and COM Interop. It is simple, and is
compatible with lots of example code -- for instance the other code in my
book, including all of the 2nd Edition.

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