Multiple COM Ports

[cmdolcet69]

How can I have (2) Serial COM port working and reading and writting
data at the same time?

 

[Chris Dunaway]

How can I have (2) Serial COM port working and reading and writting
data at the same time?

If you are using .Net 3.5, you may be out of luck. See this link:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2635308&SiteID=1

But in general, you should be able to create two instances of the
SerialPort class and use them. What have you tried and what problems
are you having?

Chris

 

[Dick Grier]

Hi,

The serial port object (System.IO.Ports.SerialPort) is multithreaded. Just
use as many instances as you need, and each will read, effectively,
simultaneously.

Dick

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