Serial Port Visual Basic 08

[jen786]

Hello every one ,
This is my first message on fourm ....looking forward to reply

This is regarding serial port in visual basic 2008.

when i run the following VB program. After 2 minutes it will will show on my hyperterminal (configured at 9600, 8bit,1 stop bit ). And I will get strange characters like }~j2 .......

Basically, i need help in reading and writing data in ( hex ) and display messages on hyperterminal:

Code:

Public Class Form1
    Sub SendSerialData(ByVal data As String)
    ' send string to serial port
     Using com1 As IO.Ports.SerialPort = _ 
               My.Computer.Ports.OpenSerialPort("COM1")
          com1.WriteLine(data) 
     End Using
   End Sub
End Class

[debasisdas]

Question moved to .net forum.

[Plater]

Are you setting the baudrate and databits correctly on both sides?
Your VB app does not seem to be doing that.

[jen786]

do you have a sample code i can use as a reference....

[Plater]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.ports.serialport_members(VS.80).aspx

[tlhintoq]

Just to confirm something... This is running between two computers, right? Hyperterm on one PC, and your application on the other.

Suggestion: Don't rely on the serial port being already configured the way you want it, and just open it as-is. Make a new port object, set the baud, parity, stopbits, databits and flow control yourself. *THEN* open it. Now there is no doubt as to its settings.

PS - The images you attached are so small as to be unreadable