How to display the data read in DataReceived event handler of serialport

Question

I have the following code which needs the data to be read from port and then display in a textbox. I am using DataReceived event handler for this purpose but donot know how

Answer 1

The MSDN contains a good article with examples about using control methods and properties from other threads.

In short, what you need is a delegate method that sets the Text property of your text box with a given string. You then call that delegate from within your mySerialPort_DataReceived handler via the TextBox.Invoke() method. Something like this:

public delegate void AddDataDelegate(String myString);
public AddDataDelegate myDelegate;

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //...
    this.myDelegate = new AddDataDelegate(AddDataMethod);
}

public void AddDataMethod(String myString)
{
    textbox1.AppendText(myString);
}

private void mySerialPort_DataReceived(object sender, SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e)
{
   SerialPort sp = (SerialPort)sender;
   string s= sp.ReadExisting();

   textbox1.Invoke(this.myDelegate, new Object[] {s});       
}