Clear Serial Port Buffer

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tony - 27 Mar 2007 18:43 GMT

Hi.

How can i clear the serial port buffer ?

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Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 27 Mar 2007 19:02 GMT

I'm not familiar enough with the .NET CF SerialPort class to give a perfect
answer, but an inspection of the *Help* for the class shows
DiscardInBuffer() and DiscardOutBuffer() methods...

Paul T.

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> How can i clear the serial port buffer ?

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Ole - 27 Mar 2007 19:04 GMT

MyCommPort.DiscardInBuffer();

MyCommPort.DiscardOutBuffer();

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> How can i clear the serial port buffer ?

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<ctacke/> - 27 Mar 2007 19:04 GMT

Read all data and throw it away.

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> How can i clear the serial port buffer ?

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Dick Grier - 28 Mar 2007 18:17 GMT

Read clears it.

I (personally) think it is silly to DicardInputBuffer, but you can do that
too.

Dick

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