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Adding serial communications requires specialized knowledge that might be outside an individual programmer's expertise. For years, developers have relied upon the power and reliability of the ActiveXperts Serial Port Component serial communications control

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Serial Port Component

Adding serial communications requires specialized knowledge that might be outside an individual programmer's expertise. For years, developers have relied upon the power and reliability of the ActiveXperts Serial Port Component serial communications control

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Simon Anto
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Serial Port Component

Download ActiveXperts Serial Port Component 3.2 - (Windows x64,


Windows x86)

View Manual - (HTML)

Screenshots - Product image gallery

Adding serial communications requires specialized knowledge that might


be outside an individual programmer's expertise. For years, developers
have relied upon the power and reliability of the ActiveXperts Serial
Port Component serial communications control.

Easy to use API

Control devices over a serial port

32-bit ActiveX and 64-bit ActiveX included

Samples available in C#, VB, ASP.NET, HTML, PHP, Javascript,


Delphi and more

Startup screen

MS Visual
Studio

.NET web
application

.NET GUI
application

Console
application

Use ActiveXperts Serial Port Component for different purposes:

To control manufacturing machines via the serial port;

To configure network devices (like print-servers, routers) via the


serial port;

To control a modem, connected to the serial/USB port or Bluetooth;

To transfer files through a null modem cable;

Any other scenario where serial communications is involved.

ActiveXperts Serial Port Component features the following:

Direct COM ports supported (like 'COM2');

Windows Telephony Devices supported (like 'Standard 9600 bps


Modem');

Support for RS-232, RS422 and RS485;

Up to 256 ports opened simultaneously;

Thread-safe to allow the component in multi-threading environments


(multi-threading samples included);
Support for Hayes compatible modems, connected via a serial port,
USB or Bluetooth;
Support for Virtual COM ports (i.e. COM ports redirected through
the network);

Hardware flow control (RTS/CTS, DTR/DSR);

Software flow control (XON/XOFF);

Support for any baudrate;

Ability to set baudrates, parity, stopbits;

Full buffered data transfer;

Text and Binary data transfer;

Advanced logging.

ActiveXperts Serial Port Component includes samples for many development


tools, including:

Visual Basic .NET. More

Visual C# .NET. More

ASP .NET VB. More

ASP .NET CSharp. More

Visual Basic 6.x. More

ASP 2.x. More

Visual C++. More

VBScript. More

HTML. More

Borland Delphi 7.x or higher. More

PHP. More

Powershell More

Any other development platform that supports ActiveX/COM


components

System Requirements
ActiveXperts Serial Port Component is available as a 32-bit component
and as a 64-bit component (both part of the product):

AxSerial32.dll - 32-bit component;

AxSerial64.dll - 64-bit component.

ActiveXperts Serial Port Component runs on the following Operating


Systems:

Windows 2012 R2 (64 bit);

Windows 2012 (64 bit);

Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit);

Windows 2008 (32 and 64 bit);

Windows 2003 (32 and 64 bit);

Windows 2000 Server and Professional (32 bit only);

Windows 8 (32 and 64 bit);

Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit);

Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit);

Windows XP (32 and 64 bit).

ActiveXperts Serial Port Component is built on top of the Microsoft


serial device drivers. It uses these drivers. It neither replaces them,
nor does it install any additional serial device drivers.
It's easy to distribute the Serial Port Component to many PC's. With a
valid license it's just a matter of copying the AxSerial32.dll file, or
AxSerial64 on a 64bit Windows, and registering it using 'regsvr32'.
Regsvr32 is build-in in every supported Windows environment.

Code Snippets and Sample Applications


The following code snippets (VBScript) illustrate how to use Serial Port
Component.
For more samples, please check the Online Serial Port Component Samples.
Initialize a modem using a direct COM port

Set objComport = CreateObject( "AxSerial.Comport" )


new Comport instance

' Create a

objComport.Device
port directly

' Use a COM

= "COM1"

objComport.BaudRate
= 56000
baudrate (default value: 9600)

' Set

objComport.HardwareFlowControl = True
Hardware Flow Control

' Set

objComport.SoftwareFlowControl = False

' Set

Software Flow Control


objComport.Open
port

' Open the

Wscript.Echo "Open, result: " & objComport.LastError


If( objComport.LastError <> 0 ) Then
WScript.Quit
End If

objComport.WriteString( "at&f" )
command

' Write

str = objComport.ReadString
WScript.Echo "Received: [" & str & "]"
response

' Read the

objComport.Close
port

' Close the

Initialize a modem using a Windows Telephony Driver

Set objComport
= CreateObject( "AxSerial.Comport" )
new Comport instance

' Create a

objComport.Device = "Standard 9600 bps Modem"


Windows Telephony driver

' Use a

objComport.Open
port

' Open the

Wscript.Echo "Open, result: " & objComport.LastError


If( objComport.LastError <> 0 ) Then
WScript.Quit

End If

objComport.WriteString( "at&f" )
command

' Write

str = objComport.ReadString
WScript.Echo "Received: [" & str & "]"
response

' Read the

objComport.Close
port

' Close the

Send an SMS using a GSM Modem connected to the PC; Enable logging

Const RECIPIENT

= "+31624896641"

Const MESSAGE

= "Hello, world!"

Set objComport
= CreateObject( "AxSerial.Comport" )
new Comport instance

' Create a

objComport.Device = "Nokia 6680 SmartPhone"


Windows Telephony driver

' Use a

objComport.LogFile = "C:\SerialPortComponent.log"
logging

' Enable

objComport.Open
port

' Open the

Wscript.Echo "Open, result: " & objComport.LastError


If( objComport.LastError <> 0 ) Then

WScript.Quit
End If

WriteStr objComport, "at+cmgs=" & Chr( 34 ) & strNumber & Chr( 34 )


ReadStr objComport
WriteStr objComport, strMessage
strTermCmd = Chr( 26 )
message: [ctrl]z

' Terminate

WriteStr objComport, strTermCmd


objComport.Sleep 3000
time

' Allow some

ReadStr objComport
expected

' +CMGS:

ReadStr objComport

' OK expected

objComport.Close
port

' Close the

' ********************************************************************
' Sub Routines
' ********************************************************************
Sub WriteStr( obj, str )
obj.WriteString str
WScript.Echo "-> " & str
End Sub

Sub ReadStr( obj )

str = "notempty"
obj.Sleep 200
Do While str <> ""
str = obj.ReadString
If( str <> "" ) Then
WScript.Echo "<- " & str
End If
Loop
End Sub

' ********************************************************************

Licensing
Standard
Professional
Distribution
License
License
License
AX003-0010
AX003-0012
AX003-0020
X
X
X

Direct COM port support


Windows Telephony Device
X
(TAPI) support
Configurable baudrate
X
Hardware flow control
X
Software flow control
X
Support for multiple ports
(simultaneously)
High-speed data
transmission
Use component on any
computer in your
organization
Distribution of component -

X
X
X

X
X
X

For detailed licensing information, click here.

More information
To read more about ActiveXperts Serial Port Component, use one of the
following links:

How to use ActiveXperts Serial Port Component

Online samples

How to digitally sign an ActiveXperts software component

How to distribute an ActiveXperts software component

Release notes

Brochure

Manual

Download

Serial Communication Tutorial

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