new to vb.net and problems with RS232

[Incognito44]

I'm using an RS232 Class I found, the problem lies with the objRS232.Write()

I want to send a string as in objRS232.Write ("D" & chr(20))
The intellisense tells me that
objRS232.Write is expecting Buffer() as byte
objRS232(Buffer as byte())

Can anyone tell me how to send my charactor string as byte
thx Gregg

[Pirate]

this example shows you how to convert any expression to Byte Type : from Integer ==>Byte


Dim byt As Integer = 100.12
MsgBox(CByte(byt))


What's RS232 anyways ?:D remember I was trying to help,don't have any idea about it though:p

[DNA7433]

i saw this somewhere and i think this might be what your actually looking for

system.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes()

just pass in your string and it'll turn it into a byte array

[Incognito44]

DNA7433,
Thanks, That seemed to cure one problem, it was complaining about not being a byte array.
I'm still not getting a response from the RS232 device, so I'm not sure if I'm not retrieving correctly or the write is not being interpreted correctly

objRS232.Write(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("D" & chr(10)))

Will play with it some more.....
I suspect the USB to serial adapter is not 100% kosher....