I know yall are speaking in english but I have no clue what your saying.

 

It's a sub form of english called computerese. For a translation (and a just fun read) see the Jargon Files: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/

Edwin

 

Beyond that......I just can't say anything, but of course, I'm sure you understand

 

*engaging psychic mode*

I'm sensing a ... a.... an NDA in your past.

*end warp*

I totally understand. I hate walking around knowing what's coming up without being able to tell anyone!

Back to C#... My only beef is that I can't get low level enough for RS232 without breaking out into unmanaged code. I know some of that may be coming up in the 2.0 Framework... I'm curious to see how much of those pieces make it to the gold release.

brandon.

 

Is that because of the HAL? What sorts of things are not available? Bit levels on the control pins such as RTS CTS CD etc...?

I assume you can get and send strings. Are there any problems there? I have a device that uses 8 bit communications with ALL codes possible. Can I get every byte without filtering of control codes etc...?

Edwin

 

To the best of my knowledge, the 1.0 and 1.1 .NET Frameworks don't have any managed namespaces for Serial IO built into the framework. You'll always end up going out to unmanaged code to interact with windows (typically done with the kernal.dll or otherwise). I was also developing in the Compact .NET Framework and it's the same way, just harder. There are several open source projects that I've found helpful:

http://opennetcf.org/CategoryView.aspx?category=Home
http://www.codeworks.it/net/VBNetRs232.htm
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/DotNetComPorts.asp

There are some more out there, but each one reverts to unmanaged code inside the wrapper classes.

brandon.

 

I would be happy just walking around knowing whats going on now, let alone whats coming up

~Rob

 

Joefarmer, serial io is not in the 1.0 and 1.1 releases of the framework so yes, you will have to PInvoke down to unmanaged code. Now, in the 2.0 version, there Serial IO is included as part of the framework. Until the operating systems are written in managed code, then PInvoking down to unmanaged code is a fact of life. This is true no matter if it is Java, PHP, .Net, COM, or whatever. At some point in those libraries they are making native calls to the OS.

So short story, starting cranking out some pinvoke calls, or download the latest beta of 2.0 and work completely in the managed world.

Where I work, I live in a NDA, past present and future

 

I did a little searching on MSDN and I found this nice article with an included base class to build on. Thanks for the hint.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...m/default.aspx

I'll take a look at the open source links you provided also.

I've never been under an NDA myself but there have been other TLA's.



Edwin