read charcter from serial port

Hi all
I want to read & write character from the serial port. Does anyone knows how t o do it.I ma having XP with .net framework

 

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I need source code in C using .net framework

 

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Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

HANDLE hPort;

BOOL WriteByte(BYTE bybyte)
{
	DWORD iBytesWritten=0;
	DWORD iBytesToRead = 1;
if(WriteFile(hPort,(LPCVOID)
	&bybyte,iBytesToRead,&iBytesWritten,NULL)==0)
	return FALSE;
else
	return TRUE;
}

BOOL WriteString(const void *instring, int length)
{
	int index;
	BYTE *inbyte = (BYTE *) instring;
	for(index = 0; index< length; ++index)
	{
	if (WriteByte(inbyte[index]) == FALSE)
		return FALSE;
	}
	return TRUE;
}

BOOL ReadByte(BYTE resp)
	{
	BOOL bReturn = TRUE;
	BYTE rx;
	DWORD dwBytesTransferred=0;

	if (ReadFile (hPort, &rx, 1, &dwBytesTransferred, 0)> 0)
	{
		if (dwBytesTransferred == 1)
		{
			resp=rx;
			bReturn = TRUE;
		}
	else 
		bReturn = FALSE;
	}
	else 
		bReturn = FALSE;
	return bReturn;
}

BOOL ReadString(void *outstring, int *length)
{
		BYTE data;
		BYTE dataout[4096]={0};
		int index = 0;
	while(ReadByte(data)== TRUE)
	{
		dataout[index++] = data;
	}
	memcpy(outstring, dataout, index);
	*length = index;
	return TRUE;
}

void ClosePort()
	{
		CloseHandle(hPort);
		return;
	}

HANDLE ConfigureSerialPort(LPCSTR lpszPortName)
{
	HANDLE hComm = NULL;
	DWORD dwError;
	DCB PortDCB;
	COMMTIMEOUTS CommTimeouts;
	// Open the serial port.
	hComm = CreateFile (lpszPortName,GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,0,NULL,OPEN_EXISTING,0,NULL);
	PortDCB.DCBlength = sizeof (DCB); // Initialize the DCBlength member.
	GetCommState (hComm, &PortDCB);	// Get the default port setting information.
	
// Change the DCB structure settings.
PortDCB.BaudRate = 9600; // Current baud
PortDCB.fBinary = TRUE; // Binary mode; no EOF check
PortDCB.fParity = TRUE; // Enable parity checking
PortDCB.fOutxCtsFlow = FALSE; // No CTS output flow control
PortDCB.fOutxDsrFlow = FALSE; // No DSR output flow control
PortDCB.fDtrControl = DTR_CONTROL_ENABLE;
// DTR flow control type
PortDCB.fDsrSensitivity = FALSE; // DSR sensitivity
PortDCB.fTXContinueOnXoff = TRUE; // XOFF continues Tx
PortDCB.fOutX = FALSE; // No XON/XOFF out flow control
PortDCB.fInX = FALSE; // No XON/XOFF in flow control
PortDCB.fErrorChar = FALSE; // Disable error replacement
PortDCB.fNull = FALSE; // Disable null stripping
PortDCB.fRtsControl = RTS_CONTROL_ENABLE;
// RTS flow control
PortDCB.fAbortOnError = FALSE; // Do not abort reads/writes on
// error
PortDCB.ByteSize = 8; // Number of bits/byte, 4-8
PortDCB.Parity = NOPARITY; // 0-4=no,odd,even,mark,space
PortDCB.StopBits = ONESTOPBIT; // 0,1,2 = 1, 1.5, 2

// Configure the port according to the specifications of the DCB
// structure.
if (!SetCommState (hComm, &PortDCB))
{
printf("Could not configure serial port\n");
return NULL;
}
// Retrieve the time-out parameters for all read and write operations
// on the port.
GetCommTimeouts (hComm, &CommTimeouts);
// Change the COMMTIMEOUTS structure settings.
CommTimeouts.ReadIntervalTimeout = MAXDWORD;
CommTimeouts.ReadTotalTimeoutMultiplier = 0;
CommTimeouts.ReadTotalTimeoutConstant = 0;
CommTimeouts.WriteTotalTimeoutMultiplier = 0;
CommTimeouts.WriteTotalTimeoutConstant = 0;
if (!SetCommTimeouts (hComm, &CommTimeouts))
{
printf("Could not set timeouts\n");
return NULL;
}
return hComm;
}

int main(void)
{
// Can also use COM2, COM3 or COM4 here
hPort = ConfigureSerialPort("COM1");
if(hPort == NULL)
{
printf("Com port configuration failed\n");
return -1;
}
// Call your ReadString and WriteString functions here
ClosePort();
return 0;
}