Re: Why not serial port component in .NET?

Hi,
A serial communication component will be included in VS 2005.

Regards,

Lorenz

"Lau Lei Cheong" <leu_lc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello,
>
> Just a bit curious why CLR team decided not to include serial
> communication compatibilities in the .NET Framework. Although we can use
> CreateFile() API to access the COM ports to read/write synchronously, it's
> not easy(for beginners) to write something that can listen the COM ports
> and response to events. I know MSCOMM32.OCX is avaliable but 1) it's not a
> .NET thing 2) it's not easy to program it in a machine that didn't have
> VS6 installed.
>
> It should be more handy to have something like
> System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient as a simple wrapper that allow us to do
> simple tasks. And enable us to have more consistant coding so it'll be
> easier for us to port the code to use TCP/UDP later. How do you think?
>
> And anyone know will that be anything of the sort in .NET v2.0?
>
> All responses are welcomed.
>
> Regards,
> Lau Lei Cheong
>
>


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