Arduino Programming Tutorial: Visual studio and serial com port communctions

This tutorial describes how to use Visual Studio with the Visual Micro plugin to program an Arduino to send messages down the serial port and how to write a windows program that receives those messages from the com port and displays them on the screen
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[@KrisKasprzak]

Good tutorial. it may be good to point out that you CAN't have the arduino serial monitor window up when running the VB code.

[@AnirbanKar4294]

thank you so much :) for the second part of the tutorial...(serial reading)

[@alexandrebelanger1091]

Awesome video and great quality. Was your Arduino connected to the PC via USB? Do you think it is possible to have an Arduino to read values from an accelerometer, and then have my C++ program to get those values so I can make calculations with them? Thank you, Alex

[@ClearNinjaFox]

great video it explain some of my questions tho partially so let me go ahead and shoot. now this is where it gets interesting exactly where you decided to cut the video, as it was the main question i had "how can we have the program interact with that data coming in from arduino?

[@TheRelic1974]

I have a WinForms app in VS2015. Serial comms work fine with all arduino flavors except for leonardo/pro micro. I know those bootloaders/boards have a virtual com port and I am using 'while(!Serial.Available) in my sketch. It seems the board is not receiving nor sending any data. Any advice? The same sketch and WinForm app works perfect with any other arduino board.

[@das250250]

Can you explain why it would be worth using as opposed to standard arduino interface >?

[@fabiotauk5130]

Can you do the same example using a VS C++ Form? I can read data, from the serial port to a TextBox, but I CAN´t update it automatically (have to press a button). Thank You.

[@bryanmendoza3919]

HI sir did you try create a program in visual studio that display the reading measure of ultrasonic sensor?

[@FrankLopezx]

why dont i get anything in my toolbox drop from the tab on the left? and why when i run the port com feature i get a pop up?

[@phisitja01]

thank you for your information

[@ricardomariz2941]

Very good!!!

[@SWEKREZZ]

Great video :-)

[@VaupellGaming]

tryed adding it to a textbox text but that did not work :p TextBox1.Text = (objSerial.ReadExisting)

[@KrisKasprzak]

+Eqvaliser did you ever get this working? I'm using a form application and my withevents never fires when a serial change

[@josedejesusmaciel2925]

is this compatible with visual studio 2013 ultimate?

[@marincokaric789]

Is there a way to communicate with Arduino over usb in Visual Studio 2013?

[@mahdisalah6834]

thanks .. but why the keyword (serial) not exist !! please help

[@itmemo8617]

Moss from the IT crowd is that you ?

[@AfterDarknes]

Thanks!

[@kemalkaradag76]

Thank you.

[@marincokaric789]

I am not receiving anything in Visual Basic application. Just a empty console :( When I check Serial monitoring tools Arduino program is still running fine and counting :) Any tips?

[@marincokaric789]

Fixed by sending RTS signal. RTS signal needs to be set to 0 after You finish reading data. Sub Main() objSerial.BaudRate = 57600 objSerial.RtsEnable = True objSerial.Open() Console.ReadKey() objSerial.RtsEnable = False objSerial.Close() End Sub

[@IanDorionHD]

+Marin Cokarić I have the same problem. Empty console. Tryed your RTS seting still not getting anything

[@marincokaric789]

Ian Dorion sorry for late reply, here is my thread on forum, I fixed most of issues and my code worked after :) forum.arduino.cc/index.php?PHPSESSID=5e4dl9d44ae4pj76pqun1ho593&topic=290197.0;nowap

[@13firebug13]

Why am I getting "Access to the port 'COM3' is denied."?

[@13firebug13]

Never mind I realized I had to close Arduino as the port was being used by that.

[@awknmx]

13firebug13 How did u close the port? I'm unable to upload programs again from visual atmel 6 :S

[@13firebug13]

Immanuel V Sorry I don't know anything about Visual Atmel

[@MrSwiss313]

Immanuel V did you find a solution? also getting the same error with atmelstudio 6.

[@13firebug13]

4ightBit I think what I done was had the Arduino IDE open, so I closed it because the port was being used by that as well.

[@salimshahzada4786]

sir, i need your help

[@pb695]

why is that my serial monitor shows garbage language?

[@tavaci81]

PS :)

[@geneemailbox4geneemailbox465]

that was horrible... woudn't know where to start in visual basic.... what a horrendous programming language but i bet making delay() is a whole lot easier than a CLR c++ project