I want to use VB6 to create a GUI for communicating with a Bluetooth device. The 'device' is a TI processor with a custom made application, which you can connect to and send a few commands. On the PC side I have a Bluetooth dongle (BLED112) , which appears to behave as a serial port (happens COM9 on my PC). An existing user interface is written in Python, but as said I'd like to use VB6. .. I know my way around in VB6 (sort of..), but little or no experience with Bluetooth... So much for the introduction.

Questions:
Do you know how/what to send to the COM port (using MSCOMM offcourse) to interact with the BT dongle? Is that specific for a dongle, or is there a standard for this? Is Bluetooth communicattion always through a serial port?
I used a SerialPortMonitor uitility to 'listen' what is sent over the serial line during a "connect". It seems only to be a few bytes. I tried to repeat those bytes, sending the same bytes as seen with PortMon, and indeed I got some response, but no clue what I see.... I understand that is is a process of 'advertising' !?

I guess this is more a Bluetooth question than VB6, nevertheless it would be cool for me to demonstrate the use of VB6 to communicate to the BT device.. A VB6 GUI is so much more impressive than Python, so I'd appreciate any help in my quest...
_Wim_