How to scan for COM ports in C#?

Question

Does C# provide an effective means of scanning the available COM ports? I would like to have a dropdown list in my application wherein the user can select one of the detected C

Answer 1

Use WMI through the System.Management namespace. A quick Google finds this code:

using System;
using System.Management;

public class Foo 
{
    public static void Main() 
    {
       var instances = new ManagementClass("Win32_SerialPort").GetInstances();
       foreach ( ManagementObject port in instances )
       {
           Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", port["deviceid"], port["name"]);
       }
}