Visual Studio Development tools for developing windows apps to work with Arduino

Projects Interfacing w/ Software on the Computer
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Hello
I recently found out that it was possible to use Visual Studio for developing apps to run on windows
which interface and interact with Arduino boards etc (and other software).

I am interested in developing an app that runs on Windows 10, which interfaces with the Arduino and software that runs on Windows.

I am presently primarily interested in building tactile physical control surfaces that can be used to control software and 3rd party plug ins that run on Windows 10.

For example. I would like to be able to control some features of Pro Audio software from a tactile bespoke control surface that i designed myself, and would like to be able to build a small applet that can be used to tailor the messages from the arduino over USB or Ethernet, before being sent on to other software.

If there is anyone on the board that knows about Visual Studio and Arduino, please can you advise me
as to which version of the software to use.

Thanks
Kind regards
J

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Serial communication is a popular method of communication and easy to implement between a PC and arduino and even if you don't choose serial the following link will help you understand how to create a simple protocol that makes communications more reliable.

https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=288234.0

Visual Studio Community is a good download

Visual Studio may initially seem like a nightmare to get started with but whether it's C# or VB there is one short and simple serial method for both that can be adapted to fit virtually all scenarios where serial comms are involved.

Read Ronin2's tutorial and download VS Community and you should get a lot of the help you need in these forums.

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On top of what sumguy said, you can use this C++ library to allow your Windows app to interface with the computer's COM port (and, by extension, your Arduino) in the exact same way your Arduino interfaces with its Serial port.

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You can not control a Windows application from an Arduino unless you're using an Arduino that can act as a HID (e.g. Arduino Leonardo).

If that's not the case, you have to write a Windows application that reads serial port data and 'converts' it to commands for your application.

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Hi, I need help from this forum members. I have successfully developed GUI using visual studio to read weather parameters from SD card on arduino uno through serial port (using UsB cable) but the issue I am having is that when reading the content of SD card to Visual studio form, it reads SD card content successfully but stop writing data on the SD card until it reads all the data on the SD card. That is data logging will stop and start logging immediately it finishes reading from SD card and if it took 3 mins or more to read the SD
card content, the data during those period will be lost. I want a situation that reading from SD card will not stop logging of data to the same SD card. Please help. Thanks.