Trying to read from the COM (serial) port

[shdjsm]

I'm working on a project for school and have looked at numerous websites as well as some of the exisiting posts. I am still having problems finding code that works. I know that VB 6 has MSComm which would make it easy to read from the port, but since I am just learning VB.Net, I'm not sure if I am even importing the MSComm control properly.

It may even be helpful that I write to the COM port and try to read what I just wrote (just to make sure everything is working right).Any help, especially code, would be greatly appreciated. You can email me at [email protected] or post here. Thanks!

[bgard68]

Check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

[PENNYSTOCK]

There was a "toolbox" that Microsoft had when I think vb.2003 came out that had a lot of good tools. One was the sax.communications object that made my life very easy when programming for com port devices. I'm not sure where I got this toolbox, but if anyone else knows where to get it, it will be of great service to you. Let me know if you can't find it and I can search my computer(s) to see if I still have it

[PENNYSTOCK]

Google This: Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit <--Goto microsoft sites

I think this is it

[darth vador]

VB.net 2005 Express has SerialPort object.

EZ to use...