[Elecraft] Re: K3 Firmware upload

[Toby Deinhardt]

> It's possible that we'll rewrite the K3 Downloader software application 
> in VB6, etc., so that .NET won't be needed. The only reason we use .NET 
> now is that I'm a C programmer, and the quickest way for me to get the 
> downloader working was to use Microsoft's C# programming environment.

NO - Please *not* in VB6! The only reason for this might be to support 
old versions of Windows, but for modern platforms there are better 
solutions, e.g. C#, VB.Net, etc. together with .Net technology. I want 
to be able to run the loader under systems other than Windows!

For a multi-platform solution with serial communication one ought to use 
the .Net System.IO.Ports classes, which according to Mono status 
<http://mono.ximian.com/class-status/mono-HEAD-vs-fx-2/class-status-System.html> 
are almost complete.

Also see the following <http://www.mono-project.com/HowToSystemIOPorts>.

In other words, serial communications should not really be a problem. I 
have not tried this in Mono yet.


If System.IO.Ports is in GNU's PNet, I don't know.


I do fair amount of .Net stuff at work, and it is one of the few 
Microsoft developments which I actually think is good.

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