What is the best way of communicating with Serial ports and TCP/IP communcation using vb.net?Using visual studio .net can we make it easier?? Can anyone send me sample application of communications?If I write a program communicating with my hardware using Searial port or TCP/IP, will the program be slow?? Are there any programming techniques working with communication ports?
View 1 RepliesI'm reasonably proficient with VB but never had any expirence with communicating with hardware. I have a piece of software that communicates with a Eurotherm 3216 process controller via RS232, but its use is fairly restricted what it can do.What I want to be able to do is take the communication from the software and redistribute it to THREE Eurotherm 3216 controllers, so my software would intercept the comms and effectively emulate the Eurotherm.
View 5 Repliesis there any other way to access a serial port using visual basic.net 2010? i followed the steps in this site, How to access serial and parallel ports by using Visual Basic .NET but i just got this output Open the serial port. Send the attention command to the modem. Wait for data to come back to the serial port...
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I'm fairly new to Visual Basic (VB), but I've already got running code to access all my serial port. The problem is I want to load multiple serial ports into an array and loop through them in my functions. The program allows me to create ports(), but fails when I try to populate it.
Dim ports As IO.Ports.SerialPorts()
ports(0) = SerialPort1
Where SerialPort1 is an object I draged from the Visual Studio toolbox.
I'm learning the serial port programming. So, I study the code samples from MSDN - VB101SamplesBCL2 http:[url].....While ran the solution of "UsingTheSerialPort", It shows error: It highlights one sentence textBox2.Text = SerialPort1.ReadLine() -- Line 40 ,and says :
"InvalidOperationException was unhandled - Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'textBox2' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on."
able to open and utilize a single serial port within with my VB 2008 program (i.e., set port parameters, open&close port, send&receive data via port, etc.), but I want to open two or more serial ports concurrently within my VB 2008 program so that I can read data from one port, say COM1, make decisions and calculations based on that data, and send instructions out through another port, say COM2.
View 1 RepliesI am still new in programming. I am an electrical engineer. I have to read the time from GPS from one serial port apend this time to a data got from other device serially.
View 1 RepliesI am creating an application to configure some modems through the serial port. I have no problem sending a single string of data to the serial port and displaying the immediate response to a rich text box. I have 2 problems
1st: how to update the rich text box for any delayed response from the modem
2nd: how to react to the response from the modem, in other words I want to send the next command based on the response from the modem witch is usually "OK"
This is what my code looks like currently to send ans receive data from the serial port. (sport1 is my serial port and display is my rich text box)
sPort1.Write("AT+WOPEN=1" + Environment.NewLine)
With Display
.AppendText(sPort1.ReadExisting())
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I want to know if there is a way to refresh a combo box when a new serial port becomes available.[code]
View 2 RepliesI am using serial port class from VB.net to communicate my hardware. Some times I may lost or get incorrect data. I am just wondering how to implement hardware flow control in Vb.net
View 1 RepliesImports System.Threading
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports System.IO.Ports
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in my code,im inputting a byte coming from Arduino board microncontroller..im sending character 'N' to com5, and the code above is fetching that data from arduino board..my problem is the output string on the textbox is <78> which is the ASCII equivalent of 'N' how will i convert that to what is really being sent by the board which is 'N'..
I'm wondering how I could monitor a serial port for a voltage change or contact closure and have an event triggered when there is a detection.
View 1 RepliesI have the following code to create an array of serial ports.
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i'm creating a windows form to send/receive data to/from serial port.At first : i send the data as string to the serial port .Second: i tried to read the string again for test the successfull transmission , but i recieved empty string
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I have a device that communicates with the pc via a serial to usb cable. So I have made windows form with a serial communication to speak with it. The communication is every 125ms so every time it checks if the com port is open and sends the new message. The problem is that if the usb is not connected the program tries every 125 ms to connect to the serial port and the busy cursor appears always and the form is not responding to any action (for example enter into the menu or refresh a listbox). I have tried multiple times to connect and disconnect the usb while the program is running. That's mean that the serial connection stopped and started all over again several time. The problem is that occasionally it shows an error "unable to open com port".
View 10 Repliesim making project of automated polling system using sms how can i read the text message in the cellphone and display it in textbox
View 1 RepliesI want to perform serial communication on selecting
.Net Framework2.0--->Visual Basic--->Device application
Presently I am using this code
Imports System.IO.Ports
Imports System.IO.Ports.Serialport
If Button1.Text Is "open port" then
SerialPort1.Open()
Button1.Text="close port"
Button2.Enabled=True
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But I am getting error as
"An unhandled exception of type System.InvalidOperationException occurred in System.dll
Additional Information: The basestream is only available when the port is open".
I am using two serial port in my programm.What is want is, i need to receive data from one port and send on another port and vice a versa.This code receive data from one port but can't receive data from another port. I have tried to simulate this code by using hyper terminal and it works properly with both com port. Where as i have written code in Vb6 too and its is giving same problem as giving interupt while recieved data from one port but not giving interupt which receiving from another port. I know the another way to receive data is by using timer and read data by command as readline(), but what to do to make both the port gives interupt which receive data.Please help to find out the porblem, the code is in Vb.net and it is as under.[code]
View 1 RepliesI want to communicate Weigh bridge with my ORACLE Form serially. I have already import MSCOMM32.OCX in my Project and On Button Pressed I wrote a Program to Start Communication between Weigh Bridge and my form. I was stuck at GET_NUM_PROPERTY of MSCOMM32.OCX Package.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to get serial port communication working between two PC's.
My environment is: XP SP3, 9 pin serial ports on both ends, connected by a null modem cable, Visual Basic 2010 Express.
I have a sending routine and a receiving routine, both based on the on line documentation.
There are no Errors, Warnings or messages.
Problem: The receiving machine shows no sign of receiving a message sent by the sending PC. I have tried making the sending PC into the receiving PC - makes no difference.
My sending routine looks like this:
Sub SendSerialData(ByVal SendData As String)
'Send string to serial port
Using com1 As IO.Ports.SerialPort = My.Computer.Ports.OpenSerialPort("COM1", 9600, Parity.None, 8, StopBits.One)
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How do I implement Serial COM Port communication?
View 1 Replieswhen I connected the program with a serial port and planning to get the data from the serial port to the label, the label was error its says Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'Label1' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.
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is there any limitation for data taken from serial connection??
I want to take a number such as 600 (0x0258) and send these hex values to a C-based system which is assigning char's to the received bytes and rebuilding to the original number. Currently, I am converting to bytes in VB.Net but it is not giving me the expected outcome (because of the ascii nature of the transfer most likely) [Code] I've also tried using Hex but this doesn't get the data in the correct format.
View 5 Repliesas i learn VB 2010 express, i want to try some serial communication and i found this code for VB6..but i have no idea how to make it work in VB2010?
Private Sub Form_Load()
MSComm1.RThreshold = 44 'transfer data into VB program only after receiving 44 characters into buffer
MSComm1.InputLen = 0 'i think only for receive data & not for sending data ...check
MSComm1.CommPort = 1
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how to do serial communication using threading in vb.net 2008,
View 1 RepliesI am trying to interface an instrument that I send orders to.An order consists of 4 lines which I am to write to the serial port one at a time and receive an ACK before sending the next line.I have interfaced in the past using the MSCOMM, I'm new to the Serial Port class. But even then I've always received data, never sent anything.My question is when I'm looping through my 4 lines of my order, at what point do I receive ACK? Obviously, not in the same function, right? And how do I know I received an ACK and can go on to output the next line?
View 2 RepliesI implemented a serial communication between a PC and a circuit based on ATMEL mP, managing the submission of correct / incorrect reception of commands ... The following code works, I wanted a block on the performance and reliability as it is for me very important part of this project that I'm doing.
Public Class frmTrattamento
Dim IsStart As Boolean = False
Dim inputData As String = ""
Dim Stmp As String = ""
Public Event DataReceived As IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventHandler
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I'm trying to read data coming from a serial port. I simply want to ignore all other data besides the string "button_pushed". The device actually writes "button_pushed" to clean up the display when viewing the serial connection from console or similar. I can change this easily but I'd like to keep it if possible.
My code is as follows:
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I'll get an IOException from readLine(). I tried using readExisting() which prevented the error but results in the block being executed twice (probably caused by the "") so the log reads "No data match" and "Data match" for one button push.I have a few questions. First, why does ReadLine cause an exception? I tried to negate that with is_closing but it still occurs. Second, will I run into problems using readExisting as it reads the entire buffer?
I have a gps logger which store the gps data into its internal memory .I have a description file for the data format and how to send commands to the logger to get data . this file is present at the following website L [URL]
I need to make a vb.net application that can download data from the gps logger . and to set its configuration parameters .
how to create an application in vb 2010 platform to serial communication port for Mifare module with using command sets defined by the firmware.
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