accessing com port

i wrote a small prog that transfers an ascii file to a psion palmtop in qbasic. everything works fine, but i´m porting it to visual basic now and i can´t seem to access any of the Com ports with Visual Basic the way i do it in qbasic: Open "COM" + tcom + ":" + tbaud + ",N,8,1" for Output as #5

where tcom is the number of the port and tbaud the baud rate.
so how do i use the com port in Visual Basic?

Hi..
Perhaps you can use MSCOMM32.ocx for this purpose.
This OCX come with Visual Basic Controls and is easily usable.