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Find COMx Port on current computer using .NET

How do I find which serial COM ports are available on a particular computer?
Basically, I'd likely something very similar to what HyperTerminal does where
it populates and dropdown combobox with available COM ports.

Thanks,
Brian
Jun 27 '08 #1
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:44:02 -0700, BMillikan wrote:
How do I find which serial COM ports are available on a particular computer?
Basically, I'd likely something very similar to what HyperTerminal does where
it populates and dropdown combobox with available COM ports.

Thanks,
Brian
Call the static method

SerialPort.GetPortNames()

This will give you all the available COM ports
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