How to make an Arduino Serial Monitor Using C# .NET

This is a program to make a serial monitor using C# .NET framework for communicating with Arduino Microcontrollers.
Here's a link to the GitHub for the code.
github.com/rupava/Arduino-and...

[@ctorregrosaaj]

Hello. I tested the solution on a mega 2560 R3 board and it works fine. Then I try with a Seeduino XIAO board (SAMD21), but it doesn't work. Using the Arduino IDE serial monitor both boards work fine. Any advice?. Thanks.

[@ctorregrosaaj]

Solved. The Seeeduino XIAO board uses DTR handshake control. Adding the line "serialPort1.DtrEnable = true;" works correctly.

[@joseluisberruecoroig4258]

Thank you for this great and helpful tutorial

[@pietmatsobanemotokolo9925]

Great content. Much appreciated. Thanks

[@simonvaculin2014]

nice tutorial bro keep going

[@indreampark]

Thanks

[@edoardog1899]

Thank you sir. A question : where do you have access to console for debugging ????

[@GhayoorAAwan]

Is there any way we can send these serial monitor values to MSSQL server.

[@rupavagetsitdone]

Yess we can. Just use the msql connector for .net and then you can push data to the SQL server by running SQL commands.

[@johnakridge7605]

I'm getting "access to 'COM3' is denied"

[@rupavagetsitdone]

Check if your com ports are correct. If you are using a laptop, it also lists the Bluetooth COM.

[@lotharmayring6063]

where please is the program C code

[@rupavagetsitdone]

It is just a very basic Arduino Serial communication code. Not in the scope of the video

[@lotharmayring6063]

@@rupavagetsitdone n i mean the ...Ap.sln and the c-code for the windows GUI. It is annoyin to copy all form video

[@lotharmayring6063]

why so compicated, instead of using radio buttons aou program exceptions. I could not program this complcated and vbad documented lines and so lost much time. i will use pyton and Tk/Tcl instead. Also this board is not designd to be instructed with WinGUI. It has an ArduinoIDE and the bord can run standalone not needing Windows

[@rupavagetsitdone]

Sorry it wasn't helpful to you. The point of this video was to use C# and .NET to interpret serial communication with a hardware that supports serial communication such as Arduino. I sure would prefer python or electron.js for the modern programming experience. But if your project is limited to the platform, this is a video to help with it.

[@lotharmayring6063]

@@rupavagetsitdone on my experience .Net is not verry stabel and the support is not shure.....so why should someone use it, and also i dont know if India stands on USAs side

[@rupavagetsitdone]

​@@lotharmayring6063 If you already have a legacy application with thousands of lines of code, it's very impractical to switch to a better or a newer framework just for a slightly more stable experience. The pros have to heavily outweigh the cons for any kind of platform change.

[@lotharmayring6063]

@@rupavagetsitdone so this code seems to be not very portabel and once bound to microsoft you will never escape

[@rupavagetsitdone]

C# .NET though majorly maintained by Microsoft is cross platform and open source. Like the React library is maintained by Facebook/Meta. You are not bound to Microsoft but switching frameworks on any big project is easier said than done.