I am having trouble and hope one of my new-found friends (here on DC) can help.
In unmanaged C++ code, inside a simple DLL (for use with a proprietary interface), I need to access a COM port and read the data stream.
I can handle all the 'interpolation' of the data, but am having a real struggle getting access to the COM port; which, by the way is actually 'virtual' from a Bluetooth device.
Is there anyone out there with experience in this realm who is willing to help me?
I have scoured the Web for samples but none work as expected.

Inside this construct, I need to connect and read from a COM port:


BOOL WINAPI DllMain(HINSTANCE hinstDLL,DWORD
               fdwReason,LPVOID
               lpvReserved){
                  switch (fdwReason)
                  {
                  case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:
                     /* Init Code here */
                     /* If there is something you need to do before the functions in this
                     * Library can be used, perform it here and return a true (or false if it fails) */
                     MessageBox ( NULL, L"Process Attach", L"DXExternal DLL", MB_OK);
                     break;
                  case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH:
                     /* Thread-specific init code here */
                     MessageBox ( NULL, L"Thread Attach", L"DXExternal DLL", MB_OK);
                     break;
                  case DLL_THREAD_DETACH:
                     /* Thread-specific cleanup code here.
                     */
                     MessageBox ( NULL, L"Thread Detach", L"DXExternal DLL", MB_OK);
                     break;
                  case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:
                     /* Cleanup code here */
                     /* This is called as the DLL is being unloaded (most likely when your
                     * application is shutting down. */
                     MessageBox ( NULL, L"Process Detach", L"DXExternal DLL", MB_OK);
                     return false;
                     break;
                  }
                  /* The return value is used for successful DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH */
                  return true;
}

Thanks, in advance.

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