This topic describes how to use `My.Computer.Ports` to receive strings from the computer's serial ports in [!INCLUDE[vbprvb](../../../../csharp/programming-guide ...

For example, this code pads the string with number signs (hash marks): Dim s As String ... In most routine cases, .NET versions of Visual Basic act the same way. For example, vbNullString is replaced ...

We'll be able to add a Visual Basic class project to hold our custom encrypted string business logic, but we'll need to make a few modifications in the existing C# code to call that class. Next, we ...