Port problem

Question

I have a program that allows me to write things to a Pocket PC through the com ports. But on the Pocket PC I received today, there were only a USB cable for connecting it to my PC. How can I do similar things through a USB port? Are they named as com ports also, and if so, what are the usual numbers? I have an Acer Ferrari 3000 laptop, with 4 usb ports..... I want to be able to send data to the Pocket PC through the USB port of my laptop, to learn how to handle incoming data. Thanks.

trydis · Answer

Thank you for the reply. It's a Dell Axim X3 Pocket PC. - How do I find the name of the port on my Pocket PC? - Does anyone have some code that I can look at that is finished? My real problem is knowing how to read from the port of the PPC I'm a total novice when it comes to PPC's and have known c# for 1.5 years or so. Hope for some help.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/netserialcomm/ Using the above article you remove SetCommDCB GetCommDCB and the DCB Settings from it and use as portname: \\.\[usbdevice] where usbdevice is your device name.