Need Help for interfacing with serial ports

[Harvey]

HI could anyone give me a sample script for connecting with a serial port.
I am currently doing a thesis and I need to estblish a connection ofRFID reader and the Visual basic.

[vijaydiwakar]

HI could anyone give me a sample script for connecting with a serial port.
I am currently doing a thesis and I need to estblish a connection ofRFID reader and the Visual basic.

for communication there r just four parametrs boudrate,parity ,stopbit ,comport
check the details of the h/w use mscomm ctrl and do the job use oncomm event to tress activity happened on comm ctrl
try it

[Harvey]

But I don't know how to use those parameters, could you give me some sample programming script.

[vijaydiwakar]

But I don't know how to use those parameters, could you give me some sample programming script.

 
when u drop mscomm ctrl on thy form select the ctrl press f4
goto setting and adjust the settings as per thy h/w reqd.
(9600,n,8,1) where boudrate,parity,databit,stopbit

Private Sub MSComm1_OnComm()
' write code for activity here
End Sub

try it

[Harvey]

My I also be able to receive data via serial ports, for example a magnetic card ID, would it be able to receive data.

[Harvey]

thanks I'll try it, if I incounter another problem I'll post it again

[vijaydiwakar]

thanks I'll try it, if I incounter another problem I'll post it again

yeh............ ..!
that's the spirit keep it up

[Harvey]

Sir my I ask wats is the activity code

[Harvey]

The sample activity code

[vijaydiwakar]

The sample activity code

at this place u'll get a string which contains a lot of garbage data then the digits or actual data (this may be in reverse order) again garbage data
here u've to exctract actual data and process it later
check all inbuffer methods

[majidmajid]

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