Deployment of my .Net app with MSCOMM32.oxc Active-X component fails

[Urs Vogel]

Hi

For supporting the serial port for remote data collection on manufacturing
devices, I added the mscomm32.ocx Active-X component to my .Net 1.1
application, which works fine on my machine (I have VS 2003 FW 1.1 and VS
6.0 installed). When creating the setup, it nicely includes the mscomm32.ocx
and the interop module in the setup project. When installing it on a client
machine, everything appears to be ok, and even talking to the mscomm32.ocx
does not throw any exceptions. The problem is that this component does not
talk to the serial port ... so it's pretty useless.

I suppose there's something missing, any hints of what that could be, or how
I could track it down and solve this?

Thanks, Urs.

 

[Terry Olsen]

I've used the RS232.vb module from this article in my VB .net applications
and have been able to use the COM ports without using the OCX.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...ca-e4f1-4846-912c-b4ed37a1578b&DisplayLang=en

 

[Urs Vogel]

That's cool, just changed it and got rid of the ocx. Thanks.

Urs