{"id":2315,"date":"2010-07-29T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T22:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2010-07-29T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T22:48:30","slug":"the-devil-is-in-the-serialport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"The devil is in the SerialPort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>&#8216;m surprised how many people look here for help on the .Net 2.0 SerialPort component (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;gbv=2&#038;biw=1280&#038;bih=711&#038;q=c%23+serialport+clear+buffer&#038;aq=f&#038;aqi=&#038;aql=&#038;oq=&#038;gs_rfai=\">reference<\/a>, which leads to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1497\">this posting<\/a>). I have plenty of example code, but I haven&#8217;t had time to re-test the project or even try com0com on this 64-bit Windows box. Com0Com (<a href=\"http:\/\/com0com.cvs.sourceforge.net\/viewvc\/com0com\/com0com\/ReadMe.txt?revision=RELEASED\">link<\/a>) does support 64-bit environments, provided that you:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">  The com0com.sys is a test-signed kernel-mode driver that will not load by<br \/>\n  default. To enable test signing, enter command:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">\n    bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\"\n  and reboot the computer.\n<\/p>\n<p>What is <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc709667(WS.10).aspx\">bcdedit<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>No examples for now but my earlier mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1497\">posting<\/a> should get you somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;m surprised how many people look here for help on the .Net 2.0 SerialPort component (reference, which leads to this posting). I have plenty of example code, but I haven&#8217;t had time to re-test the project or even try com0com &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[56,88,176,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}