ARDUINO Dynamic serial port management DLL in VB .NET

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• published: 09 Apr 2017
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Did you ever got tired whenever you develop a UI and COM port addressing became a problem each time windows resets the old port addresses (especially if you are a hard-coding maniac like me)? because i surely did, so i've took the time to developed this library that allows you to easily integrate this automatic arduino detection in any .NET app. This window raises events depending on the situation and allows you to retrieve any object you need from this form (the arduino object that contains its own thread, own serialportreceivehandle, and all the basic stuff). The ARDUINOS have to be programmed in such way that when interrogated, each should respond on it's serial port with its own id so this library knows which board to ignore and which to connect to.The animations are gifs found on google searches, the transparency is a cheap trick. hope you like it. Link to ARDUINO DLL project and example: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4amakzvfqtxhr87/AAAiIxCel8LBoT48j73UP9cEa?dl=0 To add the DLL into your project, add it to your References (right click on your project, Properties, References, Add..,Browse, select Arduino.dll) HOW TO USE: 1.Declare your object type inside your Form class: Public WithEvents Ardu1 As New Arduino (if you use Arduino.vb) Public WithEvents Ardu1 As New Arduino.Arduino (if you use Arduino.dll) 2.Setup your object with your desired configuration: Ardu.Setup(_queryCmd, _id) EX: Ardu1.Setup("_id","123") 3.Lookup for your connected Arduino: Ardu1.Pair() 4. Declare your sub handels: Sub ardu1Pairedhandle() Handles Ardu1.PairedEvent Sub ardu1_handle() Handles Ardu1.NotFound Private Sub received1(ByVal _buf As String) Handles Ardu1._received 5. Send commands to your Arduino: Ardu1.send("text")