Help with finding com ports

[HarryA]

Greetings from Pennsylvania.

I have a VB6 program that can send and receive serial data with an Arduino board.
It would be helpful if I could acquire the com port the Arduino is using on start up
of the VB program.

My attempts to use the Microsoft example results in a syntax error. I do not understand
the example requirements enough to continue. Could one of you folks explain to me what I need
to do to make the compiler happy?

'have set: Project->References->System_Windows_Forms
Private Sub Command1_Click()
' Show all available COM ports.
For Each sp As String In My.Computer.Ports.SerialPortNames
ListBox1.Items.Add (sp)
Next
End Sub

This example requires:
A project reference to System.Windows.Forms.dll.

Access to the members of the System.Windows.Forms namespace.
Add an Imports statement if you are not fully qualifying member names in
your code. For more information, see Imports Statement

ref:

[2kaud]

I suggest you re-post this on this site's sister-site at:
https://www.vbforums.com/forumdispla...-6-and-Earlier