How to get what's using the COM Port Visual Basic (.NET)

Question

I have this code here

For i As Integer = 0 to My.Computer.Ports.SerialNames.Count - 1
      ComboBox1.Items.Add(My.Computer.Ports.SerialPortNames(i))
Next

Example Output:

COM1
COM2
COM3

this returns a list of used COM ports in a ComboBox

now what I want to do is something like this

COM1 <USB Mouse>
COM2 <USB Keyboard>

etc.

I want to get whatever it is using the COM port.

Hope anyone can help, thanks!

Answer 1

Here I found a link where your question is solved: Msdn forum

It uses Windows Management Instrumentation to retrieve the data you want from the ports. This way you will retrieve the full name of the port, including the part you want.

Here is the code:

' Add reference to System.Management.dll.
Try
    Dim searcher As New ManagementObjectSearcher( _
   "root\cimv2", _
   "SELECT * FROM Win32_SerialPort")

    For Each queryObj As ManagementObject In searcher.Get()
        MsgBox(queryObj("Name"))
    Next

Catch err As ManagementException
    MessageBox.Show("An error occurred while querying for WMI data: " & err.Message)
End Try