Serial Port

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Thiago Guedes

Hi,
how can I use Serial Port in C#, using a framework native
code.
I dont want to use P/Invoke.

Tks,
Thiago
 
Using an active X control still means that you will be using interop
code of some sort, and it will actually take more instructions to call the
COM code than it would to call the P/Invoke code.

Even when the System.IO.Ports namespace is introduced, my bet is that it
will just be a managed wrapper calling native code anyways, so you might
want to do this yourself for now, and switch over when the namespace is
introduced.

Hope this helps.
 
If you are going the MSComm COM interop route, simply add a reference in
your C# project to MSCommLib. Click on the COM
tab and browse to select your MSCOMM32.OCX .

Then create an instance of it in your C# class:

MSCommLib.MSComm mscomm = new MSCommLib.MSCommClass();

The MSComm control has been working fine for me however I am still looking
for a better .NET way to do it:

Some alternatives to using the MSComm control in .NET

C#
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=b06e3
0f9-1301-4cc6-ac14-dfe325097c69

Managed C++
http://www.codeproject.com/managedcpp/howtocomport.asp

VB .NET
http://www.mentalis.org/classlib/class.php?id=15


http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=8aaa0
158-95b6-49a7-bb20-93391fc4c196

C# ( This uses thread pooling that is not supported under Win98)
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=b06e3
0f9-1301-4cc6-ac14-dfe325097c69

C#
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=fcba7
fc5-666e-4eb0-863f-0045b0c79ec7

-Ed
 
Nicholas Paldino said:
Even when the System.IO.Ports namespace is introduced, my bet is that it
will just be a managed wrapper calling native code anyways, so you might
want to do this yourself for now, and switch over when the namespace is
introduced.
Click to expand...

We use this MS source, haven't had any trouble with it. It looks a lot like
Longhorn, so I expect trivial conversion later.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/usersamples/Default.aspx?query=SerialPort

-- Alan
 
We use this MS source, haven't had any trouble with it. It looks a
lot like Longhorn, so I expect trivial conversion later.
Click to expand...
http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/usersamples/Default.aspx?query=SerialPort

The above approach does not support Win98 or WinME. It uses
BindIoCompletionCallback and Windows 95/98/Me are *all* not supported. Of
course .NET does not support Win95 at all.

Also, some methods of the ThreadPool Class are not supported by Win98.

-Ed
 
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