What is needed for the physical USB connection between two Windows computers for communication between their virtual serial ports? Should I use USB/serial adapters?
I am building a .NET terminal app on Windows 10 Pro computer that must use a virtual serial port for communication through a USB connection to the virtual serial COM port at a Windows 7 Pro computer that is running the terminal app on .NET.
The terminal app is the PortChat example app from MSDN's serial port documentation.
PURPOSE: I need to test a serial communication .NET app on Windows 10 that will eventually communicate with an embedded STM that is presently unavailable .
You can do this with two USB serial adapters and a null-modem cable. If you just need something quick that is known to work, this is a good option (I suggest either FTID or PL2303 based adapters for this, they seem to be more reliable when talking to other USB-to-Serial adapters in my experience than other options).
However, you may be able to find a cable that just does the whole thing for you. I already know such things exist for Ethernet connections (those 'USB transfer' cables you see advertised sometimes are cases of this, they have two USB-to_ethernet adapters hard-wired to each other), so I would actually be a bit surprised if such hardware did not exist already.
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