How to use the Serial port in C# without using win32api or mscomm.ocx

[Sagaert Johan]

Is there a c# solution for this ?
It may work like the MSCOMM control.
Applications that use the MSCOMM ocx should distribute this component too,
so i want to avoid this.
How can serial port access with overlapped io be done in c# ?
Or should i fall back to the win32 api (createfile) with overlapped io ,and
create a wrapper in managed code ?

Any suggestions ?

 

[Michael A. Covington]

Hi Sagaert,

I've just started a book ".NET Framework Solutions - In Search of the
Lost Win32 Api" which has a whole section about Serial Port access - because
it's missing from .NET.

Good luck,
Fergus

Who's publishing it, and when will it be available?

 

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Michael,

SYBEX: 2002
Author: John Paul Mueller
ISBN: 0-7821-4134-X

Regards,
Fergus

 

[Boaz Ben-Porat]

Take a look at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/NETSerialComm/default.aspx

It shows a complete serial port implementation in C# usin P/Invoke.

Boaz Ben.Porat
DataPharm a/s