Read Serial Data and display in DataGrid View

[ejleiss]

Hello,

I am able to read data from a serial port and store it in an array, but I would like to be able to take those array values (hex values) and display them in a DataGrid. Would someone be able to direct me to some sample code that helps explain this?

Thank you.

 

[jmcilhinney]

What EXACTLY is in your array and what EXACTLY do you expect to see in your grid?

 

[ejleiss]

What EXACTLY is in your array and what EXACTLY do you expect to see in your grid?

The array is an array of bytes and I would like to see a 6 column data grid that displays the bytes. (ie say my array consists of 0x55, 0xFF, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x08, 0x55, 0xFF... etc. I would like to see this in my grid:

0x55 0xFF 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04
0x05 0x06 0x07 0x08 0x55 0xFF
... etc


Thank you

 

[jmcilhinney]

If you have a Byte array then it doesn't contain hex values; it contains Bytes. Unless you want to load the data into the grid manually, you'll need to first define a type that has six Byte properties. You would then create an array or collection of that type, populating each instance with six elements from the array. You could use a For loop with a Step of 6 for that. You can then bind that list to the grid. If you want the values displayed in hexadecimal format then you'd have to set the DefaultCellStyle.Format of each column.