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Determining what serial ports are available on a Windows Determining What Serial Ports Are Available on a Windows Machine. Posted by Zach Gorman on July 9th.

SerialPort.GetPortNames Method (System.IO.Ports)

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  • Virtual serial port emulators are available for many operating systems including MacOS, Linux, and various mobile and desktop versions of Microsoft Windows.
  • Serial. available Description. Get the number of bytes characters available for reading from the serial port. This is data that s already arrived and stored in.
  • // Example by Tom Igoe import processing.serial. ; // The serial port: Serial myPort; void setup // List all the available serial ports: printArray Serial.list.
  • Jan 21, 2005  Make your local serial port available in a session. Updated: January 21, 2005. Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server.
  • Subject: No serial ports available From: Andrew Todd Date: 7 Apr, 2006 :10 Message: 3 of 4. There is a bug in version 6.5 for the serial port. Have a look at.
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Gets an array of serial port names for the current computer.Namespace:

The order of port names returned from GetPortNames is not specified.

Use the GetPortNames method to query the current computer for a list of valid serial port names. For example, you can use this method to determine whether COM1 and COM2 are valid serial ports for the current computer.

The port names are obtained from the system registry for example, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HARDWARE DEVICEMAP SERIALCOMM. If the registry contains stale or otherwise incorrect data then the GetPortNames method will return incorrect data.

The following code example uses the GetPortNames method to display serial port names to the console.

// Get a list of serial port names.

string ports SerialPort.GetPortNames ;

Console.WriteLine The following serial ports were found: ;

// Display each port name to the console.