Read/Write serial data in VB2008
Hello, my Stamp 2 Board of Education is now the heart of my developed "Observatory Control System". This is a nifty device helps me monitor and control everything from my telescope position, to the roof of my robotic Internet controlled observatory. I've got the Stamp part working great! But I run into problems on the PC side:
Basically what I need is some way to read serial data into my PC through the serial port (I have a serial BoE) and then actual DO something with it, i.e. read in data as variables. This seems like a very simple thing to do, but here I am, weeks later, weeks into my "Learn VB2008 in 24 hours" and I'm no closer to figuring this out.![mad.gif](http://forums.parallax.com/images/smilies/mad.gif)
I've used the search function but I can't seem to find anyone with any working code that would even show me how to do this in VB2008. . .any suggestions or pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks!
-Jeff
Basically what I need is some way to read serial data into my PC through the serial port (I have a serial BoE) and then actual DO something with it, i.e. read in data as variables. This seems like a very simple thing to do, but here I am, weeks later, weeks into my "Learn VB2008 in 24 hours" and I'm no closer to figuring this out.
![mad.gif](http://forums.parallax.com/images/smilies/mad.gif)
I've used the search function but I can't seem to find anyone with any working code that would even show me how to do this in VB2008. . .any suggestions or pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks!
-Jeff
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Click on the following link - http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=671804·- for a step-by-step introduction on communication via a serial port between a Stamp and VB2008 written by Jeff T. (Unsoundcode).
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Craig Eid
www.TriadRD.com
-J