help: access ms comm in visual studio 2005

mscomm visual studio 2005

how to access ms comm in visual studio 2005 for parallel and serial port access as it is a component of vb.net

mscomm vs2005

MSComm32 is for serial port communications only. If you are using VB.NET do this:
1. Create a new Windows Form
2. Add the MSComm32 COM/OCX Control to your "Windows Forms" by right clicking on the Toolbox and choosing "Customize Toolbox..."
3. Select and add the "Microsoft Communications Control"
4. Draw the new control onto your form (Telephone icon)
If you are deploying your application, you will have to implement a registration of the object in your installation program.
A better solution is to use one of the many serial port classes written for VB which require no registration, such as:
http://www.codeworks.it/net/VBNetRs232.htm

For parallel port access with Windows 2K or XP use inpout32.dll. Or search this forum for parallel port. There have been many discussions about this in the last few weeks.

visual studio 2005 mscomm

Watch for the December issue of Circuit Cellar. I believe my article on the subject will be published then. (watch your PrivateMail)
-Aubrey

visual studio mscomm .net

Cool. What's your article about?

visual studio 2005 serial port update

Why do you want to use MSCOMM in VS2005. Since you have the full power of the .NET 2.0 framework at your fingertips, why not use the System.IO.Ports namespace:

https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.ports.aspx

I just finished updating some legacy code (written using MSCOMM) and used the SerialPort class instead. Much nicer, and much cleaner in .NET.