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Ok sounds good, do you have a cose sample of how this might be done? Also out of curiosity what third party tool might you recommend?
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Ok sounds good, do you have a cose sample of how this might be done? Also out of curiosity what third party tool might you recommend?

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I have written a c# application designed to receive and send data to and from a COM port. Unfortunately I am awaiting the arrival of the COM device I need to test this application, so what I am looking for is a way to simulate the COM port.<br />
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This should allow me to connect to the 'mock' serial port send messages to it and send messages back. I dont want to use a third party application for this if possible - i.e. if I can write a C# application to acheive this that would be ideal as I would need to customise it very heavily.<br />
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Whatever the solution is I am sure it will be a new concept for me so a simple solution with a step by step approach would be appreciated!
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I have written a c# application designed to receive and send data to and from a COM port. Unfortunately I am awaiting the arrival of the COM device I need to test this application, so what I am looking for is a way to simulate the COM port.

This should allow me to connect to the 'mock' serial port send messages to it and send messages back. I dont want to use a third party application for this if possible - i.e. if I can write a C# application to acheive this that would be ideal as I would need to customise it very heavily.

Whatever the solution is I am sure it will be a new concept for me so a simple solution with a step by step approach would be appreciated!

Mock serial port communication C#

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