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Excel Com port communication
Hypnofrog, You may want to try the following link to the MS Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823179 (HOW TO: Access Serial Ports and Parallel Ports by Using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET) I'm not sure if this qualifies as the "simplest way" but I hope it...- tomdtomd
- Post #79
- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
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Excel Com port communication
Thank you for the key, GVF. I am not sure exactly how to manually insert it to my registry. Could you provide some details on how to do this? Thank you.- tomdtomd
- Post #74
- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
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Excel Com port communication
I've found this thread quite helpful. I'm trying to communicate with a lab instrument by an RS-232 serial comm port from Excel VBA. I've downloaded MSComm using GVF's post of 27 May '05, and registered the file by the method of tbl (Jan 05). I got the control into my toolbox as suggested to...- tomdtomd
- Post #72
- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
