Question

i have a program in C#. and i want to print out what the program gets from serial.

class Serial
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[256];
        using (SerialPort sp = new SerialPort("COM2", 6200))
        {
            sp.Open();
            //read directly
            sp.Read(buffer, 0, (int)buffer.Length);
            //read using a Stream
            sp.BaseStream.Read(buffer, 0, (int)buffer.Length);

            Console.WriteLine(buffer); 

        }
    }
}

The program writes out System.byte[] and then quits.

Answer 1

Similar to what SLaks said, this would be the fix:

string bufferText = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(buffer);
Console.WriteLine(bufferText);