Use of MSCOMM32 in Visual C++ .net

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Ken Maitland - 17 Aug 2004 17:30 GMT

I have a version of mscomm32.ocx on my machine which is dated 1997. I
assume
this is the version that came with my Visual Development suite 97.
I did not buy a Version 6 and went straight to .net, hence I do not have a
version 6.0 of MSCOMM32.OCX
I am trying to update a program that was written in C++ version 6 to be
supported in C++ .net.
Although I can add an activex control to a dialog box I cannot seem to be
able to add a class for handling my comms.
Does anyone know if Visual Studio.net comes with an updated, or version 6,
of MSCOMM32.
If not do you know how I can get a copy.
Finally does anyone know once I have the control how to include it into my
C++ code?

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g9u5dd43_nospam@yahoo.com - 17 Aug 2004 18:46 GMT

The best way is to write the functionality in C++, but why bother when
there are alternatives:
http://www.sax.net/activex/comm/

1) VS.NET does not come with a serial control (no MSComm)

2) Look here:
http://www.yes-tele.com/mscomm.html

3) And here:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/richard_grier/NETCommOCX.htm

4) or here:
http://www.codeworks.it/net/VBNetRs232.htm
http://www.mentalis.org/classlib/class.php?id=15

5) and of course,...here
http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=320

and here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/NETSerialComm/default.aspx

>I have a version of mscomm32.ocx on my machine which is dated 1997. I
>assume
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>Although I can add an activex control to a dialog box I cannot seem to be
>able to add a class for handling my comms.

>Does anyone know if Visual Studio.net comes with an updated, or version 6,
>of MSCOMM32.

>If not do you know how I can get a copy.
>Finally does anyone know once I have the control how to include it into my
>C++ code?

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