Findong number of Com ports on a machine

[rollasoc]

Hi,

Anyone know a way of working out the total number and which COM ports exist
on a machine, using C#?

rollasoc

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Re: Findong number of Com ports on a machine

rollasoc,

Using the classes in the System.Manageme nt namespace, I would do a query
for all instances of Win32_SerialPor t. This will return the information
about the port, as well as the number of ports on the system.

Hope this helps.


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Re: Findong number of Com ports on a machine

Thank you Nicholas.

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> Using the classes in the System.Manageme nt namespace, I would do a[/color]
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> for all instances of Win32_SerialPor t. This will return the information
> about the port, as well as the number of ports on the system.
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> Hope this helps.
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> >
> > Anyone know a way of working out the total number and which COM ports[/color]
> exist[color=green]
> > on a machine, using C#?
> >
> > rollasoc
> >
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[rollasoc]

Re: Finding number of Com ports on a machine

Hi,

Ok, sussed how to find the 2 COM Ports on my motherboard ok, using
System.Manageme nt namespace and looking for Win32_SerialPor t.

Problem now, is I have 3 COM Ports on USB connections, but can't seem to
find a way to query for them.

Any suggestions?

rollasoc


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> > rollasoc,
> >
> > Using the classes in the System.Manageme nt namespace, I would do a[/color]
> query[color=green]
> > for all instances of Win32_SerialPor t. This will return the information
> > about the port, as well as the number of ports on the system.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > --
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> > >
> > > Anyone know a way of working out the total number and which COM ports[/color]
> > exist[color=darkred]
> > > on a machine, using C#?
> > >
> > > rollasoc
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