friendly name = the name that appears in “Device Manager” under “Ports (COM & LPT).
EDIT: two solutions provided below. One with WMI and another with SetupAPI.
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friendly name = the name that appears in “Device Manager” under “Ports (COM & LPT).
EDIT: two solutions provided below. One with WMI and another with SetupAPI.
Try running a WMI query on the Win32_SerialPort class. Download WmiCodeCreator to experiment and auto-generate the C# code.