easy question....

[Milsnips]

whats the .NET equivalent to write to an LPT port or a cOM port..

i think in vb/vba it was something like:

OPEN "c:\file.txt" for LPT as #1??


thanks.
Paul

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

whats the .NET equivalent to write to an LPT port or a cOM port..

Thomas Scheidegger's Serial Port FAQ (in German)
<URL:http://groups.google.com/[email protected]>

..NET 2.0 will provide support for accessing the serial port:

'SerialPort' Class
<URL:http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/ref/ns/system.io.ports/c/serialport/serialport.aspx>

 

[Guest]

Microsoft have a KnowledgeBase article that shows you how to access
serial/parallel ports using Visual Basic .NET:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823179