Reopening serial port fails if not closed properly with CloseHandle

Question

I am working with USB device on Windows that is seen as a virtual serial port. I can communicate with the device using CreateFile and ReadFile functions, but in some cases m

Answer 1

Maybe you can add a Try catch close around your main code, and call CloseHandle in the catch close. Then even if the program craches, CloseHandle will be called.

try
{
   HANDLE hPort = NULL;
   hPort = CreateFile(...);
   // You code...

}
catch (...)
{
   if (hPort != NULL)
       CloseHandle(hPort);
}