Setting values in ini file....

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Hi All,

Going over some code and found I wasn't setting the Handshake, Parity or StopBits
in the file so I went in and found I was setting all the easy ones like Baudrate, Databits. I was the ones which require Name.Value ie:

C#

myComPort.Databit = 8;

fine,

C#

myComPort.Handshake = Handshake.None

I wasn't. Those values are enums aren't they?
So I tried

C#

myComPort.Handshake =Handshake.Enum.Parse(typeof(Handshake)(ITEMhandshake));

and no, it didn't work, there is a way to do this isn't there?

Glenn
The ini in Question is:
BOARDRATE = 2400
PARITY = None
DATABITS = 8
STOPBITS = One
HANDSHAKE = None

and I know BOARDRATE should be BAUDRATE.

Posted 24-Apr-12 1:22am

glennPattonWork3

Updated 24-Apr-12 2:40am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-12 8:33am

How is this related to "ini file"? And who would be working with INI files in .NET?
--SA

glennPattonWork3 24-Apr-12 8:36am

Me, as I quote "use an ASCII text ini they are editable with Notepad, keep everything simple!" from the Boss, "but, XML ini" "do it as a flat text file"
"oh OK"

Richard MacCutchan 24-Apr-12 9:04am

and no, it didn't work is not very descriptive. Use your debugger to find out what gets returned by the Parse() call.

glennPattonWork3 24-Apr-12 9:10am

The problem seems to be Enum is throwing things

Richard MacCutchan 24-Apr-12 9:23am

What are "things"? You really need to be much more specific about your results if you expect help here; we can't guess what is happening on your system, or see the screen to read any messages.

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Wes Aday · Answer 1 · 2012-04-24T03:09:00

Solution 1

You can do

C#

myComport.Handshake = (Handshake)Enum.Parse(typeof(Handshake), "None");

Replace "None" with the string that you read out of your ini file.

Posted 24-Apr-12 3:09am

Wes Aday

Updated 24-Apr-12 3:10am

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glennPattonWork3 24-Apr-12 10:56am

Thanks, that saved me a lot of head scratching, I hate typing on Laptops!