ActiveComport Serial Port Toolkit 3.0

ActiveComport Serial Port Toolkit 3.0 is one of the most convenient tools which is useful for adding serial communications to your project. Communicate with a modem, scanner, printer, weight indicator or any other serial port device.

The component features full com port control, binary and ASCII data transfer, RS-232 and RS-485 standards, TAPI and ISDN modem support. Used it in your ASP, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++, Visual C# .NET, JavaScript, Delphi, PHP, HTML and VBScript projects. Runs on Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98/ME and Windows NT 4. Also runs on the Windows .NET framework. Easy to distribute and install, especially compared to MSComm.

Major Features:

1.   Direct COM ports supported (like 'COM2');
2.  Windows Telephony Devices supported (like 'Standard 9600 bps Modem');
3.  Support for RS-232, RS422 and RS485;
4.  Up to 256 ports opened simultaneously;
5.  Thread-safe to allow the toolkit in multi-threading environments (multi-threading samples included);
6.  Support for Hayes compatible modems, connected via a serial port, USB or Bluetooth;
7.  Support for GSM/GPRS modems (serial port, USB or Bluetooth);
8.  Support for Virtual COM ports (i.e. COM ports redirected through the network);
9.  Hardware flow control (RTS/CTS, DTR/DSR);
10.  Software flow control (XON/XOFF);
11.  Support for any baudrate;
12.  Ability to set baudrates, parity, stopbits;
13.  Full buffered data transfer;
14.  Text and Binary data transfer;
15.  Advanced logging.

Requirements:

• Operating System
• • ActiveComport runs on the following Operating Systems:
  • Windows Vista - Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Ultimate;
  • Windows 2003 - Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition, Windows 2003 Web Edition;
  • Windows 2000 - Windows 2000 Professonal, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Datacenter;
  • Windows XP - Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional Edition;
  • Windows NT4 - Windows NT4 Workstation and Windows NT4 Server (Service Pack 3 required);
  • Windows ME - Windows Millenium Edition;
  • Windows 98 - Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE (Second Edition).
• ASP .NET, VB .NET, VC.NET, ASP, VB, Visual C++ and more
• • ActiveComport can be used by using any of these development languages:
  • Visual Basic .NET - Windows .NET based applications. Requires Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. More...
  • Visual C.NET - Windows .NET based applications. Requires Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. More...
  • ASP .NET (VB) - Web site based on Active Server Pages and the .NET Framework. Requires Internet Information Services (IIS). More...
  • ASP .NET (CSharp) - Web site based on Active Server Pages and the .NET Framework. Requires Internet Information Services (IIS). More...
  • Visual Basic 5.x/6.x - Requires Microsoft Visual Studio 5.x/6.x. More...
  • ASP 2.x - Web site based on Active Server Pages (server-side scripting). Requires Internet Information Services (IIS). More...
  • Visual C++ 5.x/6.x - Windows based applications. More...
  • VBScript - Windows based scripts. More...
  • HTML - Client scripts within HTML pages. More...
  • Borland Delphi 7.x or higher. More...
  • Borland C++ Builder 6.x or higher. More...
  • PHP. More...
• .NET Framework
• • To use the ActiveComport toolkit in an ASP .NET, Visual Basic .NET or Visual C#. NET environment, the .NET Framework must be installed on the system. The .NET Framework is part of the Windows Vista and Windows 2003 Operating Systems. On Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, it's available as a separate installation. Please visit the Technology Information for the .NET Framework page to download the .NET Framework.
• Internet Information Server
• • Internet Information Server (IIS) Setup installs the Visual Basic Script and Java Script engines.
  • To run ASP pages on NT4 Servers, IIS 4.x must be installed. IIS 4.x ships with the NT4 Option Pack CD's.
  • To run ASP pages on Windows 2000 Servers, IIS 5.x must be installed. IIS is part of the Windows 2000 Operating System.
• Internet Explorer 4.x or higher
• • The Internet Explorer 4.x Setup (or higher) installs the Visual Basic Script and Java Script engines.
  • You can use the ActiveComport toolkit component from within the client HTML code.
• Windows Scripting Host
• • ActiveComport can be used in VBS scripts. VBS scripts can be used by passing the script-file as a parameter to the scripting host ( either 'cscript' or 'wscript').
  • WSH relies on the Visual Basic Script and Java Script engines provided with Internet Explorer 4.x or later. WSH is also installed as part of Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Internet Information Services 4.0. A separate setup program is provided for Windows 95.
• Visual Basic
• • ActiveComport can be used in Visual Basic. In Visual Basic, go to the 'Project/References...' menu item and check the box next to ActiveComport toolkit Type Library. Now, you can declare and create the ActiveComport toolkit object.
  • See also our comprehensive samples. They are installed as part of the product, but can also be found on our website.
• Visual C
• • ActiveComport can be used inside Visual C++ applications. Include the *.h and *.c file provided by ActiveXperts to bind your code to the ActiveComport component.
  • Visual C samples are installed as part of the product, but can also be found on our website