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Serial Communication and Control with Visual Basic .NET

Course id: 0062

Synopsis

Visual Basic .NET is an object-oriented programming language that allows the developer to rapidly create graphical-based programs for the Microsoft Windows platform. In addition to its RAD and GUI nature, Visual Basic is a language with a lower learning curve than the likes of C/C++; hence it is commonly used in industrial environments for process control interfaces.

This course introduces serial communication control in Visual Basic, particularly targeting packetized serial communication.

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What you will learn

This course concentrates on the practical knowledge to allow participants to achieve the following learning outcomes. Upon completing the course, participants would be able to:

Understand and use serial communication under Visual Basic
Packetise and depacketise serial data for robust communication
Use timers for asynchronous serial handling
File handling in Visual Basic

Who should attend

This course is particularly suited for people intending to develop applications requiring serial communication (e.g. M2M) in Visual Basic .NET.

Prerequisite

Participants should have a diploma/degree in computer science- or engineering-related fields. They must have programming experience in Visual Basic .NET.

Course methodology

This course is presented in a workshop style with lectures interlaced with demonstrations and hands-on practicals for maximum understanding.

Course duration

2 days.

Course structure

Introduction
- Overview of RS232
- Using USB-to-serial converters
The SerialPort class
- Overview
- Constructors
- Properties
- Methods
- Events
- Hands-on practical: Instantiating a Serial Port
Transmission and reception
- Transmitting a byte
- Receiving a byte
- Developing a console
- Hands-on practical: Serial Console
Robust serial communication
- Overview of robust data transfer
- Packetising and transmitting data
- Hands-on practical: Transmitting Packets
- Reception and depacketising data
- Hands-on practical: Receiving packets
- Using the timer control
- Hands-on practical: Robust Serial Communication
File I/O
- Opening and closing new files
- Opening and closing existing files
- Reading, writing and appending files
- Hands-on practical: File Access

Instructor

Dr Royan Ong

Course Schedule

Consultancy

Technical Consultancy

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