Com Ports and the MSComm Control

Introduction

One subject that seems to be discussed very little on the MSDN and on other VB sites is the COM port, and how to use it in Visual Basic. Therefore, in this tutorial, we will discuss detecting the available COM ports, and using the Microsoft COMM control to communicate with COM ports.

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James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audien...

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