control type for a newbie

10 May 2005 3:14 PM

Mike D

I want to write an app that can connect to a client side comm port. This
port will be connected to a balance, I will need to send commands to and
receive data from the balance.

I would like this portion of the app to be ran in IE because this is part of
a larger app that will be all asp.net pages. I can do this in ActiveX but
would like to do it in dotnet. Do I need to use a Windows Form Control?? If
so how do I deploy it?

Any links or advice greatly appreciated.

Mike

10 May 2005 6:39 PM

Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]

Here's how to embed windows forms controls into a web page.
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/winforms/doc/WinFormsIeSourcing.aspx
http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Articles/ArticleTemplate.Aspx?ArticleID=1264

And here's info on using COM ports from .NET 1.x.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/netserialcomm/default.aspx

..NET 2.0 has greatly improved support for serial ports, so you might want to
consider using beta 2, which was recently released.

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net

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"Mike D" <Mi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to write an app that can connect to a client side comm port. This
> port will be connected to a balance, I will need to send commands to and
> receive data from the balance.
>
> I would like this portion of the app to be ran in IE because this is part
> of
> a larger app that will be all asp.net pages. I can do this in ActiveX but
> would like to do it in dotnet. Do I need to use a Windows Form Control??
> If
> so how do I deploy it?
>
> Any links or advice greatly appreciated.
>
> Mike