C# check if a COM (Serial) port is already open

Question

Is there an easy way of programmatically checking if a serial COM port is already open/being used?

Normally I would use:

try
{
    // open port
}
cat         


        

Answer 1

You can try folloing code to check whether a port already open or not. I'm assumming you dont know specificaly which port you want to check.

foreach (var portName in Serial.GetPortNames()
{
  SerialPort port = new SerialPort(portName);
  if (port.IsOpen){
    /** do something **/
  }
  else {
    /** do something **/
  }
}