I have to work with a device that uses RS485 protocol to talk to a PC. So there are two things I need to get done:

1. Use an RS485 connector to connect the device to my PC. But I don't have an RS485 port on my machine. On checking the internet I found I could use a bridge to convert RS485 to RS232 and back. Supposing that's the way I have to go, will it impact the communication with the device in any way? Will I then have to code the app to use RS232?

2. Secondly, are there any good samples out there which use serial communication with C#?

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