serial to visual studio

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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I need help getting my arduino to talk to visual studio I have a serial connection working as far as I can send "a" via serial to set pin 13 high and send "b" to set it low on the arduino I need to send 0x00 - 0xff 192 times for each frame on my 8x8 rgb matrix. the problem is I need to send more than one single char also letting visual studio know I've received the data would be good to. BTW can I send an 8 bit number 3480 times a second? I'm thinking I can as its 27840 bits its so I can run my matrix at 20 frames a second

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Thanks for the reply is there any programs that will let me see what data is being sent I can't find anything.

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No just print out the stuff as you send it.
You might suffer with through put from a PC that will limit the data transfer to a rather bursty mode, blame micro$oft.

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Thanks for the reply is there any programs that will let me see what data is being sent I can't find anything.

I use a free program called Portmon, which is available on the net.