The serial port on our computers are with us for quite sometime now. It is more favored than the parallel port for interfacing with the outside world because it require lesser wires and can go farther distance and can even be used with newer technologies such as Bluetooth using its serial port capability. In this tutorial is a quick start guide in communicating with the serial port using VB.net without any previous knowledge.
Before we start, VB.net 2010 must be installed. The installer can be freely downloaded from
Microsoft.
Start Visual Basic 2010 Express and you will be prompted with the Start Page Window