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Beginner - Security Policy blocking code in Win98

Hello,
I have a piece of code which is trying to enumerate the COM ports in
C#.

It works fine on my XP development computer but causes a security
exception on Win98. The offending line is

IntPtr hDevInfoSet=Win 32.SetupDiGetCl assDevs(ref
Win32.GUID_DEVC LASS_PORT, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero,
Win32.DIGCF_PRE SENT);

This is defined in my Win32 class with [DllImport]. This works fine in
MFC in Win98.

1) Am I doing the correct thing or is there a .NET class to look at
drivers on a system?

2) What is the security thing all about and why can't I just look what
COM ports are on the system? Can I put something in my
application.con fig file to overcome this?

Thanks,

Andrew.
Jul 21 '05 #1
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