Has anyone done this?

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Tom Williams

We're about to being using vb.net, so I'm pretty ignorant.
(ie: please forgive my ignorance)

I need to create a stand-alone, windows program that will
read a scale attached to a serial port. Can vb.net do this
reliably and accurately? Will I need any add-in
software/controls? Is there anything else I should know?

Thanks
Tom
 
Well....

Sure.... if it worked before it *should* work now. The only thing we have
seen is improvements. But you don't need special software to interact with
the serial ports. You *may* need special software to interpret the data
coming out of those serial ports, but I take it that is what you are
writing. That software to come out of the ports.

As for reliability, VB.NET isn't necssarily responsible for that. That is
more of a hardware issue, otherwise Whatever is given to it from the
Hardware is what it will process (Based on your code).

So short and skinny, VB is only as reliable as the hardware that is actually
recording the information.

-CJ
 
Tom Williams said:
I need to create a stand-alone, windows program that will
read a scale attached to a serial port. Can vb.net do this
reliably and accurately? Will I need any add-in
software/controls? Is there anything else I should know?
Click to expand...

Thomas Scheidegger's (aka NETMaster) Serial Port FAQ
<http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2FE42E83>
 
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