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Serial Port Visual Basic Example Code
This example assumes the computer is using COM1. For more flexibility, the code should allow the user to select the desired serial port from a list of available ports. For more information, see How to: Show Available Serial Ports.
The Using block allows the application to close the serial port even if it generates an exception. All code that manipulates the serial port should appear within this block or within a Try...Catch...Finally block.
This example assumes the computer is using COM1; for more flexibility, the code should allow the user to select the desired serial port from a list of available ports. For more information, see How to: Show Available Serial Ports.
Serial ports provide an easy way to communicate between many types of hardware and your computer. They are relatively simple to use and are very common among peripherals and especially DIY projects. Many platforms such as Arduino have built in serial communication so they are really easy to set up and use. Many times you may want your project to communicate with your computer in order to have a cool interactive output, a neat sensor that passes data to your computer, or anything else you could possibly dream up. In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to interface to a serial port on the computer side of things, using Microsoft's . net framework. The code examples in this tutorial are in C#, but can be easily transferred to Visual Basic, or Visual C++. This tutorial assumes that you have a very basic understanding of object oriented programing, and whatever language you choose to program in. Since we are mainly going to be using the System.IO.Ports.SerialPort class, HERE is a link to the full documentation by MSDN if you want to check out the rest of the class. I also found a great article explaining how to fix several common bugs relating to serial ports. Check it out if you get stuck with any odd errors. Feel free to post questions or feedback! I am always happy to hear constructive comments so I can make improvements.
I hope this is helpful to you and your next project. This was something that I personally struggled to figure out so I hope that this will help you have an easier time learning how to interface over a serial port. Feel free to post comments, questions and feedback below.
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Thanks for an informative guide, I am looking to read port configurations from an SQL database, assign them to multiple com ports, and then listen on each port for data, then act upon that data. Is it possible to dimension the serial port object into an array of objects? I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet but thought I would ask first. Thanks in advance -Steve
NOTE1 : This programming guide assumes the user has a basic knowledge of Visual Basic programming. The teaching method used is to show a basic example of a VB2010 program which communicates with an ADR board by sending and receiving ASCII data, and then dissect the program to understand its operation.
ADR serial data acquisition interfaces require the sending and receiving of ASCII data via RS232 to operate. To communicate with the ADR boards using Visual Basic, the SerialPort component must be utilized to allow serial data transfer via a serial port ( Com1-Com99). SerialPort is a component shipped with VB2008 and VB2010 and must be loaded using the Toolbox/Components menu.
The last block of code is for the "OPEN COM Port" button. When the button is pressed, the value in the combobox is used to open the selected COM port and give it a label of ADRport. Further, the text string "CPA11111110" + Chr(13) is sent out on the COM port to configure the Digital I/O port so that PA0 is an output. This is required by the ADR112 and depending on your hardware, initialization may or may not be required.
Catch ex As TimeoutException is used to detect if there has been a timeout in the read of the COM port. If there is a timeout, we print "No Data" in the text box and enable a flash screen to show a timeout has occurred. We have set the timeout to 100ms in our example. If you are running the program without an ADR112 connected these events will be triggered.
1.USING VARIABLES - In many cases it may be desired to send a string incorporating a command and some variable. For example, the "MAddd" command outputs to port A, the integer value ddd. If ddd is a variable named PV, a string to set the port to the value of this variable would look like;
I am trying to create a serial port in VB.net using code only. Because I am creating a class library I cannot use the built-in component. I have tried instantiating a new SeialPort() object, but that does not seem to be enough. I'm sure there is something simple I am missing and any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
If you want to use the events make sure you declare your serialPort object using the 'withevents'. The below example will allow you to connect to a serial port, and will raise an event with the received string.
Hello friends, hope you all are enjoying the start of winter season. By the way, I really hate winter season and I just want to hibernate in this season . :) Well coming to our today's lecture, my today tutorial, serial port in VB 2010, is actually based on a request made by one of the member on my Facebook Page and as it is a really good topic so i thought to share it.
Today we will make a software on Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 in which we will send data through the serial port in VB 2010. In this software we will send the data and also receive it. Simply follow all the given steps carefully and you can easily interface the Serial Port in VB 2010, its a fully working project with code so don't do any mistake. Moreover check these two complete tutorials on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 as well, these are quite fascinating.
We are continuing to improve our embedded development support in Visual Studio and VS Code. We have recently introduced a serial monitor and RTOS support for Zephyr. These capabilities are present in Visual Studio 17.3 Preview 1 as part of the Linux and embedded development workload. The Embedded Tools extension for VS Code also includes these capabilities, though the serial monitor is available as a stand-alone extension as well. This post illustrates these new capabilities in Visual Studio and VS Code.
The serial monitor enumerates the available ports in the Port dop down box. You can set the baud rate and line ending mode in their own drop down boxes. Select start monitoring to connect to the selected device.
If you have a microcontroller circuit that needs to talk to a PC, a serial port can do the job. Serial ports can transfer data for just about any purpose. For example, a microcontroller can send sensor data for a PC to analyze and display. Or a PC can send commands to control robots or other devices.
A serial port is a computer interface that transmits bits one at a time. The interface can have as few as three lines: one to carry data in each direction plus a ground line. Many interfaces have up to six additional lines to carry status and control information.
All of the other values are available for alternate uses, such as software flow-control codes or an end-of-file indicator. Because the ASCII Hex codes are all less than 80h, a serial link transmitting ASCII Hex values can save a little time by ignoring the high bit and transmitting 7-bit values.
When I wrote the first edition of this book, the RS-232 serial port was the workhorse of PC interfaces. Modems and scores of other peripherals connected to PCs via the serial ports that were present on every machine. Read more.
Jan’s book is about as complete a reference as you’ll find on serial communications using RS-232 and RS-485. The code could save you some time; the reference material surely will. Jack Ganssle, The Embedded Muse. Complete review.
The examples I coded were appropriate and they worked. If you've ever looked for serial port examples online, you have probably beome very frustrated scanning through examples that were excessively complex, didn't apply anymore, or didn't really do much. The examples here won't frustrate you. - Dan Mabbutt, About.com: Visual Basic.
The writing is clear and understandable, with circuit and timing diagrams augmenting the written explanations. And it's worth pointing out that it's not just the how it's the why that's explained as well. In particular the emphasis of the book is on doing something useful with these devices, so there's a lot of coverage of serial communications in the form of RS-232 and RS-485. TechBookReport. Complete review.
You would spend a lot of time looking for all the information that the book collects in one place. If you plan to use a serial port in any sort of application, buy this book. - Jon Titus, Test & Measurement World.
This book covers everything you'd ever want to know about serial ports and network projects. And it's not all theory. This is a very practical book, full of detailed examples - including Stamps and Visual Basic. Both books [Programming and Customizing the Basic Stamp Computer is the other] are professionally published and put together exceptionally well. Each contains detailed code listings, clear and concise diagrams, tables, and schematics...these books are "must-haves" for serious experimenters. - Jon Williams, Nuts & Volts. 2ff7e9595c
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