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I have a visual studio 2005 forms application that is giving me fits. I want to open a serial port in 1 form, set it to a com port in a class, then use it from that class. The problem is it gives my a null reference exception.

String^     comPort  = "COM" + this->RS232CommPortNum->Value;
int         baudRate = Convert::ToInt32(this->cbBaudRate->Value);
SerialPort^ com      = gcnew SerialPort(comPort, baudRate);
com->Open();
	
Rs232Handle->setRs232com(com);

This is where I try and set it.

private:
System::IO::Ports::SerialPort^ Rs232com;

in the .h and.....

System::Void Rs232::setRs232com(System::IO::Ports::SerialPort^ value)
{
Rs232com = value;
}

in the .cpp.

This does not work, it just raises in an exception. Does anyone know how to make this sort of thing work? Thanks.

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Any advice, I know the problem, but have no clue on the solution.

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