> It seems that I miss a lot of ActiveX components such as mscomm32.ocx. I saw
> there was some plain code code written to do serial IO in Visual Basic .NET
> on the Microsoft website. I've seen this kind of code in C on their site but
> then with a year 1995. I'm I crazy?
>
> New language, new framework but I have to re-invent the wheel? Those
> Microsofties said it was efficient and it would cost me less time coding VB
> .NET.

> * "Marcel Kollenaar" <m.kollenaar@slo.nl> scripsit:
> > It seems that I miss a lot of ActiveX components such as mscomm32.ocx. I
saw
> > there was some plain code code written to do serial IO in Visual Basic
..NET
> > on the Microsoft website. I've seen this kind of code in C on their site
but
> > then with a year 1995. I'm I crazy?
> >
> > New language, new framework but I have to re-invent the wheel? Those
> > Microsofties said it was efficient and it would cost me less time coding
VB
> > .NET.
>
> There will be support for serial communication in .NET 2.0.
>
> More information:
>
> Thomas Scheidegger's Serial Port FAQ (in German)
>

>
> --
> Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

> Thanks Herfried for the information. I keep the problem with the
> licence.