Serial Port Interfacing
There are many ways to communicate with Serial Port. It depends on which Development Environment you are using. For instance suppose we are using Microsoft Development tools like; Visual C++ 6.0/.NET, Visual Basic 6.0/.NET than we can make use of a very robust control namely Microsoft Communication Control 6.0 (Visual C++) or Microsoft Comm Control 6.0 (Visual Basic). MSComm Control MSDN Link Explaining the control functionality http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/comm98/html/vbobjcomm.asp MSComm Control Example ( Visual Basic Example ) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/comm98/html/vbobjcommx.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Private Sub Form_Load () ' Buffer to hold input string Dim Instring As String ' Use COM1. MSComm1.CommPort = 1 ' 9600 baud, no parity, 8 data, and 1 stop bit. MSComm1.Settings = "9600,N,8,1&qu