Eltima Serial Port ActiveX Control 3.0

Eltima Serial Port ActiveX Control 3.0 is an easy-to-use and professional solution forsimplifing communication with external devices on rs232 connection. This includes modems, bar code readers, PBX or any other devices that have a serial interface.

Serial Port AX Control 2.0 introduces an impressive number of new properties for detailed setting of serial port, numerous new methods and events to control serial port state changes. Includes examples for Microsoft VC++ and Microsoft Visual Basic.

This professional Serial Port component is compatible with Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP/Vista, Microsoft Visual Basic 5, 6, .NET; Microsoft Visual C++ 5, 6, .NET; Inprise/Borland Delphi 3-7, Inprise/Borland C++ Builder 3-6 and .NET technology.

Serial Port ActiveX Control is:

• Steadily updated and upgraded ActiveX control with numerous profound features
• Advanced ActiveX control that lets you implement serial ports technology manipulation into your own software
• ActiveX Control developed by a team of professionals for serial and virtual serial software developers
• Compatible with different development environments to fit the needs of any professional developer
  

Major Functions:

1. Communication System Development
2. GPS Development
3. Radio/Telecommunication Companies
4. Any business with a necessity to implement advanced data exchange between serial devices and applications
5. System programmers
6. System administrators
7. Hardware and software integrators

Major Benefits:

1. Track serial port activity
   Due to Serial Port ActiveX Control full set of events and properties you can easily monitor and track all serial port activity (port opened, port closed, data sent/data received, etc.). You can alter serial ports settings directly from your application, such as timeouts and configuration of serial port, line control and handflow control, line signals and special characters.
   
2. Manage serial port signal lines
   Serial Serial Port ActiveX Control completely supports all hardware signal lines (DTR/DSR, RTS/CTS, RING, ERROR, DCD, etc.). DTR of the local port is connected to DSR and DCD of the remote port, and RTS of the local port is connected to CTS of the remote port.
   
3. Enable your own software to manage and control serial ports
   By integrating Serial Port ActiveX Control into your own software you can enable your applications to manage and work with serial ports. Everything that can be done with serial ports, can be done directly from your applications. All serial port control functions can be fulfilled with the help of our ActiveX component.

Major Features:

1. Flexible set of ActiveX methods and properties for advanced work with all serial ports
2. Wide selection of supported events
3. Full signal lines support (DTR/DSR/RTS/CTS/Ring)
4. Extensive serial port configuration management (Baudrate, Databits, Parity, Flow Control, StopBits)
5. Ability to set up control characters and timeouts for serial port
6. You can easily receive all the details about the port your application will work with: controller type, supported protocols, adjustable settings, etc.
7. Any number of ports can be controlled at the same time
8. Read/write to serial port various types of data: string, binary, byte array of VARIANTS (for ASP), etc.
9. Ability to set up serial port settings within a single string (9600-N-8-1)
10. Easily get the list of all available ports in a system and open any
11. Virtual serial ports are also supported
12. Examples for Microsoft VC++ .NET, Microsoft VC++ 6, Microsoft VB .NET, Microsoft VB 6, ASP (VB Script and JavaScript), Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder 6 included

Enhancements:

• More than 10 new properties and methods are added (MaxBaud, Ring,FullDeviceName, MaxInQueue and MaxOutQueue, ProvSubType, ProvCapabilities, SettableParams, SettableData and SettableStopParity)
• ActiveX Control and all its modules are digitally signed now
• Full support of Windows Vista
• Overcoming ports block mode limitation to prevent data losses
• SetXon, SetXoff methods in relation to flow control
• Now you dont need a special compilation to re-install the licensed ActiveX Control in your IDE

Requirements: Windows OS