Serial ports and .NET

[Todd]

Hello Oh ye Gods of .Net,
I'm going to finally upgrade from VB(5) to NET. I
havent written in much of anything else than Visual
Basic. Will I need to buy Visual Studio or can I get by
with Visual Basic Standard for applications that send and
recieve with the serial ports? I'm using a PC to talk to
industrial equipment.

thanks for reading,

Todd

 

[Armin Zingler]

Hello Oh ye Gods of .Net,
I'm going to finally upgrade from VB(5) to NET. I
havent written in much of anything else than Visual
Basic. Will I need to buy Visual Studio or can I get by
with Visual Basic Standard for applications that send and
recieve with the serial ports? I'm using a PC to talk to
industrial equipment.

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_...osoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb&as_scoring=d

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I'm going to finally upgrade from VB(5) to NET. I
havent written in much of anything else than Visual
Basic. Will I need to buy Visual Studio or can I get by
with Visual Basic Standard for applications that send and
recieve with the serial ports? I'm using a PC to talk to
industrial equipment.

None of the versions supports accessing the serial port directly (in the
..NET framework).

Thomas Scheidegger's Serial Port FAQ (in German)
<http://groups.google.com/[email protected]>

 

[Cor]

Hi Todd,

In addition to Herfried

I never tried it, but I saw there is in the resource kit a nice example from
serial ports.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/default.aspx

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor