Serial Communications

Question

Someone wrote in a post some time ago that Microsoft was going to include an assembly for serial RS232 communications. Does anyone know if that has or ever will happen? -James Divine

james · Answer

Yeah I know you can use P/Invoke to directly access the kernal and you can also do it through COM controls but I was hoping for something a little bit less taxing. I guess this is just one area that our friends at Microsoft didn't see a great need to functionality in .Net. I am definitely going to take a look at that link though I may get to do my first bit of cross-language .Netting. -James

jcity444 · Answer

Hi James I seem to remember way back that you could do it by using existing windows api calls you just need to use the importdll attribute and declare the external functions. Also there are activex controls you can drop into your project such as MSCOMM. Also check out the following web page Serial Comm in VB.NET Best Regards -Mike C# Corner Author