QUEST LOG · April 28, 2020· UPDATED June 2, 2026
Auto-Connecting a SerialPort in C# by VID and PID
The C# serial port function's official example looks something like this
C#
streamport = new SerialPort("COM3", bauadrate);
With this approach you have to go change the port every single time you open it, which is a real pain. So I found a function someone else wrote for Windows that returns a static port string to SerialPort, and it works really well.
C#
// 有錯誤可能是你沒有 using Microsoft.Win32;或其他lib
public static List<string> ComPortNames(String VID, String PID)
{
// 讀取PID和VID
String pattern = String.Format("^VID_{0}.PID_{1}", VID, PID);
Regex _rx = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
List<string> comports = new List<string>();
RegistryKey rk1 = Registry.LocalMachine;
RegistryKey rk2 = rk1.OpenSubKey("SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum");
foreach (String s3 in rk2.GetSubKeyNames())
{
RegistryKey rk3 = rk2.OpenSubKey(s3);
foreach (String s in rk3.GetSubKeyNames())
{
if (_rx.Match(s).Success)
{
RegistryKey rk4 = rk3.OpenSubKey(s);
foreach (String s2 in rk4.GetSubKeyNames())
{
RegistryKey rk5 = rk4.OpenSubKey(s2);
RegistryKey rk6 = rk5.OpenSubKey("Device Parameters");
comports.Add((string)rk6.GetValue("PortName"));
// 獲取port name,如有多個相同設備,加入comports array
}
}
}
}
return comports;
}
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