Quote Originally Posted by dbasnett
VB2008

My method of handling the serial port is demonstrated in the attached project. The module has all of the routines, even though only some are demonstrated.

I do not use BeginInvoke. At very high bit rates it is very expensive.

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Hi dbasnett,
I am trying to read a serial instrument with your sample, I have changed baudrate=4800, databits=7, stop bits=2 and set dtr=true
i can communicate with the instrument but in the rtbytes string the string is back to front intead of +006.14 I get 41.600+ as I am new to Vb2008 i would appreciate any help to correct this, I need the value in a string
i have some BBC Basic programming experiance not nothing to write home about and it was in 1984
thank you
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