1st Project

[3Sixty]

I have been asked to take some information that comes in on a communcications port and present on screen like a wallboard. I would appreciate any sort of guidance on this project. I am not sure if it is possible to read a communications port and am I really struggling. I was thinking about using a seperate application to collect the data and then read the file. The problem I have is the info is real time and is extremely simple.

The file comes out real time and the data is already collated so all I need to do is take it and format it and display on the screen.

The info comes out in raw text.

Something like this

87 4000 4 5000
85 3800 4 5001
88 3900 4 5002

This happens every second and I would like to display this on a real time wallboard. Is this possible and if so would anyone please offer some guidance. The info would be displayed as below.

Temperature RPM motors run time
87 4000 4 5000

Thanks,
Colin

 

[jmeckley]

the actual collection of the data is independent of asp.net. all asp.net does is service http request/response. I think you want to look into the System.Net.Socket namespace (or something like that) you will collect the information into some sort of data structure. I recommend POCOs. other like datatables. once the data is in a POCO or datatable you can now do with it what you want. send it to a command line, webpage, windows application, etc.

for more help with the port reading try either the C# or VB forum, whichever .net language you are choosing.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

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