Com port and process

[Rahul RK]

Hello friends, I want to know, can we get the COM Port list (device attached to pc). and the process name using the the COM port in C#. Thanks in Advance. Rahul Kulkarni

[Pete OHanlon]

If you are using .NET 2, you can use:

string[] portNames = System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.GetPortNames();

If it's .NET 1/1.1 you will have to enumerate the registry entries at HKLM\Hardware\DeviceMap\SerialComm.

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[Rahul RK]

Firstly thanks for reply. In that way we can get the com ports to which device are attached. Now how can i get process name who r using these com ports. And which com port is used by which process. Thanks again. rahul kulkarni