I want to add a serial, so if I want to use my program, I need to enter a serial. Now I already did that, by doing this:
If TextBox1.Text = "Serial2" Then
Form1.Show()
Now, I want to make, Serial2 to only work with one program. So for example, if I give my program to two friends, then I will give them Serial2, I want it to work for one friend only.
I'm adding labels at runtime to my form with a tag. Let's say I have 3 labels with the tags, "1", "2" and "3". I'm adding the tags by counting the labels + 1. When I remove a label with tag "2" from the form there are only 2 left. When I add a new label it will add a new tag "3", but that one already exist. So my "solution" isn't a very good one Although tag "2" is free, I want to give it "4". Any thoughts on how to code this properly?
View 2 RepliesI am trying to buld a DLL in VB.NET 2010 that will be use to control a vending machine.Whin a call into the DLL to a function to open and setup the comport the first time its opens it just fine, but if a call into the DLL again it does not know that the port is open even if it is still open. I can check with another program and is shows the port is open and if I try to call into the DLL again to open the port I get an error that the port is already open. Any idea how to set this up so it will work.
I need to open and config the com port in one call that leaves it open and then in other call use the com port to talk the equipment in the machine without closing the com port untill it is required to close it.
as 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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I'm fairly acquainted with VB but the underlying .Net and many of the controls and whatnot I'm not all that familiar with. Hence, I have a real hard time trying to come up with ways to solve certain problems. I figure the best way to start is try to get some general guidance and go from there.
I have an external electronic device that gathers data (no need for details here) and has an internal micro-controller that interfaces from the device to a USB port. I need to build a PC based program in VB 2010 that can get the data from the device and plot it on a graph...possibly a fairly customized graph. Let's assume there is already a driver for this device that sets up a COM port (pseudo-serial I guess it's called).
Now what part of the VB toolbox of methods, controls, objects etc (what's the terminology for that again?) should I be looking at to start such an application? I don't want specific code or anything like that but what areas in this "toolbox" should I be looking at to begin?
I 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 have a controller board that is built by us that sends strings to the serial port based on inputs that it receives. The app we are working on seems to be receiving the data fine but it is displaying it in an odd way and I'm sure it is a simple problem I am overlooking. Here is the incoming code so far:
Private Sub SecuritySerialPort_DataReceived(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) Handles SecuritySerialPort.DataReceived
ReceivedText(SecuritySerialPort.ReadExisting()) 'Automatically called every time a data
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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 made my program and now I just need to add in the serial and trial part of the application. I know the application must connect to the host and go to a txtfile. How would i do the trial and serial. Also If the serial is already activated I want the application to reject that Serial and Count how many times they entered in a wrong serial.
View 2 RepliesI have a stand alone VB.Net 2005 application that uses a serial port that generally stays open while the application runs on a Windows XP system. In trying to bullet-proof the UI, I ran into a problem when the USB to Serial Converter normally used to provide the serial port is disconnected while the serial port is open. In trying to handle the resulting error when accessing the port, I find I cannot close the port.
When trying to do so, the error message says something like "unable to close the port. You may not have sufficient permissions." Reconnecting the USB/Serial Converter does not reactivate the port.
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I am trying to build an autorun application for windows 7 and I need to retrieve a drive's VOLUME serial number (the one that changes when you format it)
View 4 RepliesI want to send hex values across the serial port. I know, I know, your thinking not this again. But what I need to do does not seem to be addressed, or I am some how missing it when I search around.
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I am using two computer to connect to each other via serial port, I have made a program in VB that allows me to read from the serial port then store whatever that character is to a variable. The only problem is I have to hit a button to read in from the serial port and pass the character to the variable. Is there any way to do this automatically?
View 6 RepliesPrivate Sub receive_data(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) Handles SerialPort1.DataReceived
Dim aBuffer(255) As Byte
Do While SerialPort1.BytesToRead > 0
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Basically, what I am trying to do is everytime I receive data from the serial port, I turn that data into an array (aBuffer) and I then call another sub using that info.The problem I'm having is that everytime I receive data, the array only fills up to the first 8 bytes! This isn't a problem when I receive smaller packets of 6 bytes but anything else gets chopped off.
What is really frustrating is that it seems quite fickle. I've read somewhere that this happens because the computer is handling the bytes received faster than they are being put in the buffer?? Not really sure but if I put a couple of breakpoints during debug, sometimes the array fills up correctly... Note the maximum size of any one incoming message would be 255 bytes.
This is an amateur radio project. I have a TNC (modem) that receives a digital stream (AX.25) from my radio. The TNC decodes the AX.25 frames and translates them to KISS frames (the protocol used between the TNC and the PC, see documentation here: [URL] It sends the data as HEX values.
What I'm looking for on the serial stream is the beginning of a data frame marked by 0xC0 0x00 and ending with 0xC0. Should be easy. Using serialport.readbyte() I should get binary data that I can convert to hex and look for the beginning of a data frame and then convert the subsequent data to ascii, as it will be text from a chat session.
Just to try it out and see the raw data coming from the port, I use teraterm or realterm and capture the data and it's a mix of junk (control frames and what not) and valid text. When I display the same data in a text box in VB I get data that look like this:
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I have a serial port hub with 4 ports. 2 of them work perfectly and the other 2 don't.I've found out that the 2 that don't work always have CTS, CD, and DSR on/true.The 2 ports "don't work" because they aren't able to receive a response.How can I turn off CTS, CD, and DSR holding? It seems that they are ReadOnly properties.I don't know if this will help, but I've recorded a log (recorded pin values every 1 second interval) for one port that worked and another that didn't.The one that didn't work:
RTS,CTS,DTR,DSR,CD,RI,TX Total,RX Total,TX CPS,RX CPS,Break,Overrun,Parity,Framing
0,1,0,1,1,0,9,0,4,0,0,0,0,0
0,1,0,1,1,0,9,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
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As you can see, the one that doesn't work has a value of 1 in CTS, DSR, and CD at all times. Also, the one that does work was able to receive the data, which is shown by the 14.
I`m trying to write a small program which connects to a serial port at 115kbps and reads a stream of continuous bytes from a microcontroller. The program should then graph these bytes by time. Ideally this all happens in "real time" and as quickly as they can be sent.With a 50ms serial write delay on the micro the VB program keeps up fine, but if I lower the delay any further, say down to 1ms, the update can`t keep up and the serial buffer just grows.I wasn`t expecting the bottleneck to be the PC side so it`s likely my code is doing something wasteful. Or maybe it`s the graphics which are drawing slow?
Private Sub DrawGraph()
Try
Dim y As Integer = m_Y
Do
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I have code to generate transaction number. hire my code :
VB
Function TransNumber() As String
Dim oCmd As New OleDb.OleDbCommand
Dim sNo As String = "P"
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I had a problem when there are multiple users using the transaction or the serial number is, because the data overwrite each other.
With this code i check the serial serialnumber of a usb stick.
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It is not perfect because the programma crash when there is no usb in de PC.But how do i search fot the sctick if it has a name , for example PPH ? And not G: , because it is everytime a different station.
I got an Arduino hooked up to the PC and would like to read the serial port of it. I read the serial port in Visual Basic with com.Readline, but it won't read everything. It looses around 2-3 lines that were sent over the serial port to the Visual Basic code. They get "lost".
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I Need a code to Identify Volume Serial Number and put in textbox1.text
The code should work for Visual Basic 2010
In my project I'm trying to send data to Serial port. I have added the serial port control to the form. Now if I try to send data to serial port using Serialport1.write method in a button click event, I'm able to send the data successfully to the serial port. Otherwise if I try to send the data using the same "Write" method from another thread other than the one in which the serial port component was created, I'm getting an exception saying serial port busy.
View 1 Repliesconnected to my Arduino. Using the VB.NET (2010) GUI I request which LED I want on (via buttons) and the I2C device then sends a reply confirming which LED actually turned on (basic feedback). Ok, sounds great right? Here's where I get issues. Well when I try to read the serial data sent to VB and display the real-time stream on the GUI, a) I get a bit of a mess as an output (values are ok, just spewn across GUI) and b) when I select a new LED to turn on, the GUI data does not refresh to this change. The stream being sent from the Arduino is ok, I looked at the data in a serial monitor.
Public Class Form1
Dim ticktock As Integer
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
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i'm using serial port monitor 4.0. i need to know how to received the data and show in a textbox.
here is how my data look like in the serial port monitor:
40 03 04 05 00 00 00 80 05 04 01 00 00 00 11 00 @......�........
80 07 04 05 00 10 00 01 02 02 14 80 07 04 05 00 �..........�....
10 00 01 02 02 14 80 07 04 05 00 10 00 01 02 02 ......�.........
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The RX data from the serial port is as follows:
FE FE FA E0 00 23 45 FD
I need to truncate everything else and just have positions 5, 6 and 7 output in the hex in a TEXTBOX. See below:
452300
Instead it will put the the whole steam in the textbox and it will be in decimal format, not hex.
Using visual studio 2010 on a PC running Windows XP SP3 (32bit) I am trying to read the output from a serial device but only get timed out error?If I open hyper terminal I can see the output, so the hardware and connections are good and the command to send data is working as well?When debugging I have no errors, when the program is run (in debugging mode) I get a timed out error from after the do loop (test=2) All I want to do is have my device output printed to TextBoxLockOut.Text? Note "comstring" grabs my com port the serial device is using - on this computer it is com4, it is a public string
Dim inputline As
String = ""
Dim command As
String = ""
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To send serial data from Arduino Mega 2560 to a VB.Net PGM, then the VB.NET pgm will read data then send to via FSUIPC (an Addin DLL) to ms flight simm 2004.OK that said here is the question: how can I write or phrase or construct the proper syntex needed to 1-limit the data sent,or in reading the data-limit the data read?I have enclosed the VB.NET code and the Arduino code. Please take a look. I am very new to both,but I try hard. all the code works but I get strange all most random data in VB. The FSUIPC end works OK, I can send to and receive from Ok.It's the VB pgm that gets the data wrong some of the time. say 8 out of 10 it is OK then button x will also turn on or off another check box then do what was aked. It seems that I am not clearing the receive buffer so I get a last chr sent before.I have tryed readline, readexisting,readbyte but I don't know how to phrase or construct any but the readline. I have tryed to flush the buffer in both codes but, well I am stuck. [code]
View 4 Replieshow to convert received string to double.
I'm receiving string as 420.8 280.9 140.2 like this from serial port.. and transferred it into textbox..
I'm using following code to split string and to convert to double
Dim ReceivedText As String
ReceivedText = txtReceived.Text
Dim str_RY_1U, str_RY_1V, str_RY_1W As String
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For calculating percentage RY_R is calculating fine.. But when it comes to RY_Y it showing error "string not in a correct format..."
What baud rates are supported by the serial port object in VB 2010?
View 1 RepliesI have conquered the problem of the database however what i need is the serial port data sent to a database and outputted on screen however i keep getting cross thread errors ..
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Imports System
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Threading
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