I think EnumPorts might be what you're looking for - I haven't played with
it in ages, though - a quick Google or MSDN search should bring up some easy
examples.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Mike Harrison <mike@whitewing.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm doing a simple app in VB6, using the MSCOMM32 control & I'd like to be
> able to get the text
> description of the available COM ports, as they appear in device manager->
> ports (COM and LPT).
> e.g.
>
> COM6 USB -Serial Device
> COM7 Bluetooth port
> etc.
>
> I've seen several other programs do this when presenting a list of COM
> ports for the user to choose
> from, but can't find any info on how to get these names - I'm guessing
> theres a Windows API call of
> some sort - any ideas..?
>
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