how to get data from the serial port?

a device is connected to the serial port, how to use c++ console application to get data from the serial port?
is there any sample program to do so??
if not , where ca ni find the sources??

thank you for helping.

thanks for the tips, but i have never seen the syntax in teh example....
the code is like that:

handle{.......

}

is it something related to the MFC or VB programming???