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September 01, 2005
Serial Ports and .NET v1.1
If you need to read data from serial ports in .NET I highly recommend the free version of Sax CommStudio. You have to give some personal information to get the free download, but that's the only cost.
For my project I'm reading from fixed bar code scanners and for my basic tests it is working really well. I had debated using the beta of the .NET Framework to get the System.IO.Ports stuff. But using a beta wasn't really a good option for this project. I spent quite a bit of time working with the code from this MSDN article but it was implemented in (what I thought) was a strange way that had me pretty confused.
The SAX component used to be distributed by Microsoft as part of the VB.NET Resource Kit, so that gives me a little bit more piece of mind about the product too.
Posted by mikel at September 1, 2005 06:20 PM
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