Icon of program: Serial Port Control

Serial Port Control for Windows

Download now

Used Serial Port Control for Windows?

Editors’ Review

Download.com staff
FabulaTech's Serial Port Control is an ActiveX component for seamless serial port communication. It eliminates complex API programming, offering an event-driven solution for physical and virtual COM ports across various development environments.

Top Recommended Alternative

Enlarged image for Serial Port Control
Serial Port Control 0/1

  • Pros

    • Supports various development environments for serial port access.
    • Royalty-free component with no hidden fees.
    • Easy integration into forms for full serial port functionality.
    • Automatically enumerates all available physical and virtual COM ports.
    • Event-driven architecture simplifies data handling and port monitoring.

  • Cons

    • Limited to Windows environments due to ActiveX architecture.
    • May offer less granular control compared to direct API implementation.
Icon of program: Serial Port Control

Serial Port Control for Windows

Download now

Used Serial Port Control for Windows?

Explore More

Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.3.1
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Server
Additional Requirements
no special
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
1,946
Downloads Last Week
9
Report Software

Program available in other languages

Last Updated

User Reviews

4/5

1 User Votes

Developer’s Description

By FabulaTech
Get a component to access serial ports in virtually any development environment.
Software developers can access various devices by utilizing the Windows API. When using an API, you gain access to a full spectrum of available features, but API programming is a very tough and time-consuming task. You have to study the documentation and you have to create all the high-level functionality based on the low-level API functions from scratch. This is OK if you develop a specialized application. However, in most cases, you just want to get a certain device working in your program with the least effort possible.One of the system devices that you often need to support is a Serial Port. There are numerous lab instruments, protection gadgets and other inventory that can be connected via a COM port. Instead of spending weeks or even months for API coding, you could use a ready-made ActiveX component in your program. We recommend you give Serial Port Control from FabulaTech a try.Serial Port Control is an inexpensive, royalty-free, component. You can use it with any , such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic .Net, Visual C++, Visual C#, Borland Delphi, Borland Builder, etc. Just put it on a form and you have all the functionality you need to access a serial port, either physical or virtual.Serial Port Control automatically enumerates all the ports available in the system. You just need to select the port name you wish to work with. The event driven architecture of this component is a snap to use. You don't have to check ports periodically in order to find if there is new data available for reading from a port. Simply define a function in your program that will be triggered automatically by the appropriate event and process the data.Despite its low cost, the component is royalty-free. There are no hidden fees and you are free to distribute it together with your own software.
Download.com
Your review for Serial Port Control