Using Serial Port with Visual Studio 2010 Application

I'm developing an application with Visual Studio 2010. I would like to send inputs and read through the serial port. I'm not sure how to go about this. Any help would be greatly apprec开发者_C百科iated.

Thanks!

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You can open serial ports with CreateFile: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363858%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Though, if you're totally new to this, you should probably start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363196%28v=vs.85%29.aspx