Contents 

Virtual Serial Port ActiveX Manual
General
Overview
Technical support
Purchase
What's new in this version?
FAQ
Installation tips
About sample application
Redistribution
Virtual serial port driver installation
VSP ActiveX Control installation
Using Virtual Serial Port ActiveX
Methods overview
Events overview
Properties overview
Reference
Methods
Attach
AppendAccessMask
CreatePort
ClearAccessMask
Delete
DeleteAccessMask
EnumVirtualPort
GetAccessMask
InsertAccessMask
PurgeQueue
ResetBus
Read
ReadStr
ReadArray
SetBreak
SetCTS
SetDCD
SetDSR
SetRING
SetTimeouts
SetStrictBaudrate
SetWiring
SetLineControl
SetHandflow
SetChars
Write
WriteStr
WriteArray
Events
OnBaudRate
OnDTR
OnHandFlow
OnLineControl
OnOpenClose
OnRTS
OnRxChar
OnSpecialChars
OnTimeouts
OnEvent
OnBreak
Properties
AccessMaskCount
Baudrate
ControlHandShake
CountVirtualPort
Databits
DeleteOnExit
DTR
FlowReplace
HandleControl
InCount
IsCreated
IsOpened
Parity
PortOpenAppPath
PortOpenAppId
RTS
Stopbits

Virtual Serial Port AX User Manual

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Overview

Virtual Serial Port is a powerful advanced ActiveX Control that allows your application to create custom additional virtual serial ports in system and fully control them. Created virtual serial ports look and work absolutely the same like real serial ports for other Windows applications. From your application you can control data sent to virtual serial port by other applications and respond to them by sending your own data to virtual serial port, which will be received by other Windows applications as if it was sent from a real serial port.

Advanced VSP ActiveX Control events detecting engine notifies you about various events occurring in system while other applications works with virtual serial port.

Main Features:

  • Full support of Windows Vista
  • Virtual Serial Port ActiveX and all of its internal drivers are digitally signed NEW!
  • Now you can force setting port settings during the runtime (for Windows 2000 and higher) NEW!
  • Virtual serial ports are located in "ports" group in Device Manager, thus any software finds our ports NEW!
  • Set custom signal lines wiring (DTS, RXT, DSR, CTS, DCD, RING) (for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista)
  • Ability to manage port access rights (for Windows 2000 and higher) NEW!
  • Added: ability to manage signal lines state
  • Emulate connection line break (for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista)
  • Enumerate virtual serial ports (for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista)
  • Flexible set of control functions
  • Wide selection of supported events
  • Virtual serial port can have any name
  • Full software emulation of real serial port
  • Full baud rate emulation (for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista)
  • Virtual serial port could be created and deleted dynamically during runtime
  • High speed data exchange from/to virtual serial port
  • Easily detect applications that open your virtual serial port
  • Examples for Borland/Inprise Delphi, C++ Builder, Microsoft VC++, Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Basic.Net, Visual Studio C# and Visual C.Net included
  • No reboot required during installation

The Virtual Serial Port component is compatible with:

  • Microsoft Windows 98 SE, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and all x64 platforms
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5, 6
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 5, 6
  • Inprise/Borland Delphi 3... and up to 2007
  • Inprise/Borland C++ Builder 3... and up to 2007
  • Microsoft Visual C++.Net 7-8
  • Microsoft Visual VB.Net 7-8
  • Microsoft Visual C#.Net 7-8