With many .NET developers moving from the traditional (and broken) System.IO.Ports.SerialPort DataReceived event handling to either the correct and more efficient BaseStream.BeginRead / BaseStream.EndRead pair I promoted in my last post or the newer BaseStream.ReadAsync method introduced in .NET Framework 4.5 along with the C# async and await keywords, a common complaint is that BaseStreamRead more
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As an embedded developer who writes desktop software mostly for configuration of, and data download from, peripheral devices, I use serial data streams a lot. Mostly USB virtual serial posts from FTDI, but also the USB Communication Device Class and real 16550-compatible UARTs on the PCI bus. Since looking at data through an in-circuit emulatorRead more