is 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...
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?
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.
I 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.
I 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())
I'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.
what is wrong with my code and I get no feedback from my button click event, i have imported. ( code Below) and i have tied differrent combinations of the code without sucess.maybe add extra to my code for the list to show open Port or closed ports.
I am using the following code to enumerate through com ports to determine if the attached modems are in use.When I get to my usb modem, it returns the correct "PostIsAvailable" status, but then it kind of locks up the modem and I get the following error when I try to manually query the modem I get: "The modem failed to respond. Make sure it is properly connected and turned on. If it is an internal modem, or is connected, verify that the interupt for the port is properly set."I either have to manually requery the modem or unplug/plug it again.This code works fine on my external serial modem, but not the USB modem.
Public Function PortIsAvailable(ByVal port As String) As Boolean Dim TempPort As New SerialPort TempPort.PortName = port [code]......
In my project I'm trying to get the caption property of serial ports available on computer. But when I run this code below I get "A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll" exception. I tried putting "Option Strict On" and then I'm getting build error saying it disallows Late binding.
I need to save data in excel workbooks. For that purpose, I call excel, open dozens of workbooks, and save them to disk.Nonetheless, the process is painfully slow, and most cores remain nonworking, so I decided to start many threads, to do it faster, and report progress on a progressbar.
But for some reason, it does not work. Excel hangs and the application breaks, without Visual Studio debugger taking notice.I don't know what is going wrong, or how to debug it.
I have a service that scans network folders using a parallel.for method. However recently I am finding if I stop the service then while windows says the service is stopped the process is still running in task manager. However it is at 0 cpu and the memory does not change. If I try and end the task (even a force in command prompt) it just says access denied and i have to reboot the server. What would be the best way to make sure everything terminates? I thought of adding a global Boolean that in the stop procedure it turns true and part of my parallel code will check for that and call s.stop.
i am using the below code in VB.Net to load the available serial ports :
COMsComboBox.Items.Clear() Dim i As Integer For i = 1 To My.Computer.Ports.SerialPortNames.Count COMsComboBox.Items.Add(My.Computer.Ports.SerialPor tNames(i - 1)) Next
i also want to load their names as seen in the "device manager",
Possible Duplicate: x86/x64 CPUID in C# I need to retrieve CPU's serial numbers. When using WMI, it is called CPUID.My goal is to access that information WITHOUT using WMI. Unmanaged is code is fine?
I have very limited knowledge of any programming and am desperately trying to learn. I am attempting to use Visual Basic to create a simple program to operate our church's projector from the computer. I am able to control the projector using hyperterminal and accessing the serial port. I am wondering how I would code a button to send the correct signal to the correct port? I have a simple setup w/ my church logo in background with three buttons. There is an On, Off and Freeze button. I am simply needing to know how to program the buttons to access the serial ports. I hope I am being clear.
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.
I 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
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.
I 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.
With this code i check the serial serialnumber of a usb stick.
[code]...
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 app, which receives data via a R232 port, convert it to a string and on the other side I got a database, where the strings are saved. How can I find a way to compare the string with all strings in one database column and get back the another stringform the same row in this database. I never programmed a database
Anyone here has an idea where I can get the ports name listed in my PC? [code]I could get COM26 and etc. if any, but that's not what I want. Instead of retrieving COM26, I want USB-SERIAL CH340 or USB-SERIAL CH340 (COM26). How could I do that?