How to open connection to my gps Device? Please help noob stuck with basic stuff :P

Question

Hello Everyone.
I'll start off by saying i'm pretty new to c# so its probably me not finding the right code.

I am interfacing some harware with my pc and use c# to handle the data from them.
I have a GPS which I have plugged in to a usb port. The GPS talks NMEA sentences. I used to be able to simply open a connection to the device and the nmea sentences started flowing in. My problem is, how on earth do I do this in c#?

Is there a way like opendevice(byterate, port) or am I in for some late nights?

Help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

Dr Spack · Answer

Hi Ron when your gps device creates a COM Port (I am pretty sure that it can do it) then you can use the following code snippets to start with: using System.IO.Ports; // ... SerialPort port = new SerialPort(     ); port.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler( port_DataReceived ); port.Open(); //... // Cleanup port.DataReceived -= new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler( port_DataReceived ); port.Close(); //... private void port_DataReceived( object sender SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e ) { string nmea; try { if( _port.BytesToRead == 0 ) return; nmea = _port.ReadExisting(); System.Console.Write( nmea ); processNMEA( nmea ); } catch( Exception ex ) { handle Exception or not!? } } You just have to figure out the parameters     . Good luck.

How to open connection to my gps Device? Please help, noob stuck with basic stuff :P