Serial Port /Com Port in windows Application

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In my window application I will be using barcode scanner through(Serial port /Com port).I have more than 20 windows forms. Customer may scan barcode in any active form. I will be using SerialDataReceivedEventHandler class to get data. I have to write same stuff code of SerialDataReceivedEventHandler in each form. So,Should i use this class in every form or how can i achieve writing all serial port code stuff in mainform and access data in every form?

If you have any suggestions please let me know.

Posted 19-Feb-14 20:10pm

RAHUL(10217975)

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2014-02-19T20:19:00

I would be treating the Serial routines ie a wrapper class around the low level serial handling as 'singleton' code - they should appear once - possibly in the mainform - Im a bit worried about why you'd need to access it from so many forms - 20 ?

There are plenty of links/code around on how to share information between forms, but, I'd say your biggest issue was preventing two forms from trying to access the serial port at once - whats going to happen in form1 and form 2 both try to send for example ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2014-02-19T20:31:00

First of all, I would suggest to use a separate thread for communication. It would make the logic way simpler than with this event.

But the main issue looks quite obvious: not only you should not do anything you mention in each form, but you should do something opposite: thoroughly isolate communication (as well as all other aspects of the code) from each and every form, from UI in general.

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