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http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=325639

Benjay,
I'm new to VB.NET and came across the same issue. Were you able to solve making the form size grater than the...

I found the answer and got it working ....

From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y2sxhat8.aspx

By default, SerialPort uses ASCIIEncoding to encode the characters. ASCIIEncoding encodes...

I did this:

Dim Port As SerialPort = New SerialPort("COM1", 9600, Parity.Odd, 8, StopBits.One)
Port.Open()
Port.Write(System.Convert.ToByte(&H2B) & _
System.Convert.ToByte(&H4) & _...

yes you are right ToChar() works on 8 bit values and I need to convert values grater than FF into characters.

it needs be all characters

I found something interesting.

when I convert a number using System.Convert.ToChar(X) and sends it through serial the X can only be hex: 0 to hex:3F if I want to get the correct value from the...

I don't think I can do that.
I think there is a difference in the new .NET control itself

What do you mean by create hex?
is it like this?

Port.Write(System.Convert.ToChar(Hex(42)) & _
System.Convert.ToChar(Hex(4)) & _
...

Hello,
I'm new to .NET. I have an application that is running in VB6. It sends text through COM1 port to another device.

When I converted the VB6 code to .NET the string it sends out is...