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Dr. Strange
Dr. Strange

Reputation: 17

How to get full name of Port

I am connecting an Arduino to my C# WinForm through a serial port. The name shown in the Windows Device Manager is "Arduino Uno (COM7)". But when I check the name shown my combobox where I am getting the comport list, then it is just COM7. I have tried a lot of examples shown on StackOverflow but non seem to work as desired. I just want my combo box to be populated with meaningfull stuff so I do not have to check device manager every time.

This is my code to find the comports.

comboBox1.Items.Clear();
        string[] ports = SerialPort.GetPortNames();
        comboBox1.Items.AddRange(ports);

This is my code to connect the Serial Port...

try
        {
            serialPort1.PortName = comboBox1.Text;
            serialPort1.Open();

        }
        catch
        {
            MessageBox.Show();
        }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1365

Answers (1)

canton7
canton7

Reputation: 42225

You need to use WMI:

var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_SerialPort");
foreach (ManagementObject result in searcher.Get())
{
    // Look at result["Caption"].ToString() and result["DeviceID"].ToString()
}

Upvotes: 5

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