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Serial Port ActiveX Control - Overview

Serial Port ActiveX Control is a flexible component to create, open and manage serial ports directly from your application which saves you time by providing a high-quality versatile alternative to complicated WinAPI for serial ports.

Serial Port ActiveX Control offers numerous methods to read/write to and from serial ports, plenty of properties for advanced configuration of serial ports as well as the complete range of events to control them. Bundled with the sample code for major development environments Serial Port ActiveX Control ensures smooth integration into your own application. For the ASP developers Serial Port ActiveX Control provides array of VARIANTS data type to read from and write to serial port.

Serial Port ActiveX Control is designed to communicate with external devices on RS232/422/423/449 connection, such as modems, bar code readers, PBX, medical instruments, IrDA, Bluetooth and USB serial devices and so on.

Main Features:

  • Flexible set of ActiveX methods and properties for advanced work with all serial ports
  • Wide selection of supported events
  • Full signal lines support (DTR/DSR/RTS/CTS/Ring)
  • Extensive serial port configuration management (Baudrate, Databits, Parity, Flow Control, StopBits)
  • Ability to set up control characters and timeouts for serial port
  • You can easily receive all the details about the port your application will work with: controller type, supported protocols, adjustable settings, etc.
  • Any number of ports can be controlled at the same time
  • Read/write to serial port various types of data: string, binary, byte array of VARIANTS (for ASP), etc
  • Ability to set up serial port settings within a single string (9600-N-8-1)
  • Easily get the list of all available ports in a system and open any
  • Virtual serial ports are also supported
  • Examples for Microsoft VC++ .NET, Microsoft VC++ 6, Microsoft VB .NET, Microsoft VB 6, ASP (VB Script and JavaScript), Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder 6 included

The Serial Port component is compatible with:

  • Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista (including x64 editions)
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5-8
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 5-8
  • Inprise/Borland Delphi (including Delphi 2007)
  • Inprise/Borland C++ Builder 3-6
  • .NET technology