Serial Port ActiveX Control - What's new in this version?

Serial Port ActiveX Control 3.0
Build 3.0.0.143 [Released: July 29, 2008]

• Several internal improvements
• Fixed: OutBufferSize property is set properly
• Fixed: rare bug during the installation process
• Fixed: several minor bugs and glitches

Serial Port ActiveX Control 3.0
Build 3.0.0.142 [Released: April 29, 2008]

• Improved: stability within all major OS
• Fixed: Read method returns the number of bytes to Count properly
• Fixed: several bugs and glitches

Serial Port ActiveX Control 3.0
Build 3.0.0.141 [Released: April 11, 2008]

• Updated: WriteVariant method is modernized to correct work with VBScript
• Improved: overal stability
• Fixed:several bugs and glitches

Serial Port ActiveX Control 3.0
Build 3.0.0.136 [Released: July 16, 2007]

• Added: More than 10 new properties and methods
• Added: ActiveX Control and all its modules are digitally signed now
• Added: Full support of Windows Vista
• Now you don't need a special compilation to re-install the licensed ActiveX Control in your IDE
• Added: Overcoming port's block mode limitation to prevent data losses
• Added: FullDeviceName property
• Added: MaxInQueue and MaxOutQueue properties
• Added: MaxBaud property
• Added: ProvSubType, ProvCapabilities, SettableParams, SettableData and SettableStopParity properties are also new
• Added: SetXon, SetXoff methods in relation to flow control
• Added: Ring property
• Improved: OnRing event was expanded
• Fixed: Break property behavior has been fixed and enhanced
• Fixed: InBufferSize and OutBufferSize properties have been fixed
• Plenty of other fixes and stabilizations in various platforms

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.5.93 [Released: November 13, 2006]

• Fixed: XonChar and XoffChar initialization mechanism
• Fixed: Several non-critical bugs

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.5.91 [Released: August 28, 2006]

• Added: Quiet redistribution procedure
• Fixed: OnCommError event handling
• Fixed: Several minor issues

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.5.87 [Released: August 8, 2006]

• Improved: "\\.\" sequence is automatically added to COM port names when open them. From now on you may open COM9 and higher without the problem
• Fixed: Events handling in Borland CBuilder and Delphi examples

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.5.82 [Released: July 17, 2006]

• Fixed: OnRxChar handling in JavaScript example

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.5.81 [Released: March 24, 2006]

• Fixed: Serial Port AX now works under not privileged user accounts

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.5.77 [Released: February 22, 2006]

• Fixed: ActiveX Component unloading issue

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.5.75 [Released: February 8, 2006]

• Fixed: WriteVariant is correctly returns the number of written bytes
• Added: IE installation CAB file example

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.4.67 [Released: January 23, 2006]

• Added: New samples for ASP (VB script and javascript)

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.4.52 [Released: January 12, 2006]

• Fixed: C# sample application code

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.4.51 [Released: December 28, 2005]

• Fixed: FlowControl selection issue in Microsoft Visual Basic

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.4.50 [Released: December 12, 2005]

• Fixed: RaiseEvent event mechanism for Microsoft Visual Basic 6

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.4.49 [Released: December 5, 2005]

• Added: ReadVariant method
• Added: WriteVariant method

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.3.44 [Released: November 30, 2005]

• Fixed: Some IObjectSafety issues

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.3.43 [Released: November 28, 2005]

• Added: Possibility to change MonitorEvents property dynamically
• Added: Possibility to specify ActiveX properties directly from GUI IDE

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.3.39 [Released: November 25, 2005]

• Event variable in OnCommEvent now is known as lEvent to avoid conflicts in VB6
• MonitorEvents description is changed

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.3.38 [Released: November 8, 2005]

• The bug in WriteStr method is fixed. Now it returns the correct number of written bytes

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.9
Build 2.9.3.37 [Released: September 23, 2005]

• Few bugs in VB6, VB.Net and C# examples were fixed
• Fixed bug with default parameters settings in case port is not opened
• updated in manual
• CountPorts property and GetPortName method were added

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.8
Build 2.8.2.18 [Released: August 12, 2005]

• Few bugs in code examples were fixed
• "Open" method was updated in manual

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.8
Build 2.8.2.17 [Released: July 14, 2005]

• New method InitString is introduced

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.7
Build 2.7.2.15 [Released: July 12, 2005]

• Fixed a bug in a "Close" method while working with ActiveX control using Remote Desktop

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.7
Build 2.7.2.14 [Released: July 5, 2005]

• Some minor bugs are fixed
• Security update applied

Serial Port ActiveX Control 2.7
Build 2.7.2.13

• Memory leaking during read operations fixed
• Advanced security issues added
• Ability to set timeouts for reading and writing to port