I am new at programming.
I am making a terminal program for some testing, the program has to send and receive data over serial-null modem. I found an example at MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y2sxhat8.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-2
But I cant get it to work. Here is what I have now:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO.Ports;
using System.Threading;
namespace Terminal_0._0._0._2
{
class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
string name;
string message;
StringComparer stringComparer = StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase;
Thread readThread = new Thread(Read);
// Create a new SerialPort object with default settings.
SerialPort _serialPort = new SerialPort();
// Allow the user to set the appropriate properties.
_serialPort.PortName = "COM8";
_serialPort.BaudRate = 115200;
_serialPort.Parity = Parity.None;
_serialPort.DataBits = 8;
_serialPort.StopBits = StopBits.One;
_serialPort.Handshake = Handshake.None;
// Set the read/write timeouts
_serialPort.ReadTimeout = 500;
_serialPort.WriteTimeout = 500;
_serialPort.Open();
var _continue = true;
readThread.Start();
Console.Write("Name: ");
name = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("Type QUIT to exit");
while (_continue)
{
message = Console.ReadLine();
if (stringComparer.Equals("quit", message))
{
_continue = false;
}
else
{
_serialPort.WriteLine(
String.Format("<{0}>: {1}", name, message));
}
}
readThread.Join();
_serialPort.Close();
}
}
public static void Read()
{
while (_continue)
{
try
{
string message = _serialPort.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(message);
}
catch (TimeoutException) { }
}
}
}
I get this error: Expected class, delegate, enum, interface, or struct on line: 66 Column: 19
Thanks in advance.