Serial communications in .NET???

[Jim H]

I need to communicate using a serial port. Are there any classes or
libraries for this in .NET? If not are there any open source libraries for
this out there?

jim

 

[Sam Gentile [MVP]]

This is a common request. There are none baked into the current 1.1
Framework. I think there implementations out there.
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[Eric Gunnerson [MS]]

There's nothing built in the current product.

I've used the SerialStream class from http://www.gotdotnet.com successfully.

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[Old Enough to Know Better]

I need to communicate using a serial port. Are there any classes or
libraries for this in .NET? If not are there any open source libraries for
this out there?

jim

This is a good sample. I used it for a couple of in-house projects.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/netserialcomm/

 

[Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]]

Hi Jim

Thank you for posting in the community!

Based on my understanding, you want to communicate with serial port in
.Net.
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Just as community member suggested, you may get this done through P/invoke
win32 API with this article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/netserialcomm/

You can find more information about how to use serial port in .Net from:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/messageboard/Thread.aspx?id=72182

The more I want to point out is that, if you want to specify Serial Ports
larger than COM9, you need different syntax, please refer to:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];115831

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Thank you for your patience and cooperation. If you have any questions or
concerns, please feel free to post it in the group. I am standing by to be
of assistance.
Have a nice day!!

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[Mark Smithson]

There is another option if you do want to do anything to complicated:

The Visual Basic Resource Kit contains the "Sax.net Communications Community
Edition". This is a very easy to use class for using the Serial Port and can
be used from C#.

Regards

Mark

 

[Jim H]

Thanks to everyone that responded. The information you guys pointed to was
a big help.

jim

 

[Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your feedback.

If you have any further concern, please feel free to post, we will help
you.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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[pei_world]

Hi everyone,
Can anyone help me to understand the serial port program? I don't know
how is work, send out data, but how to receive it?

welcome to add me: (e-mail address removed)

thanks

pei