>I recently moved from VFP 3 to VFP 5. Now I would like to use the MSCOMM
>OCX OLE control to send and receive data through serial comm port.
>
>I create an OLE control and chose the "MS Comm control" from a list. But
>the
>property list for the control doesn't show PortOpen. Then how can I open
>the
>comm port?
>
>Or anyone has experience doing serial communication, pls help, ASAP.
>Thank you very much.
>(if possible, pls indicate the detail steps)

Check out a couple of article in Microsoft Knowledge base:
Q140525 how to receive using mscomm32
Q139526 how to send using mscomm32