How to pass this in  Serial port comunication : <SOH><LF> in vb.net

rajeshavyas
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i have some code for serial port comunication.
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<SOH><LF>
09_Cobas_Integra_09<LF>
<STX><LF>
10_01<LF>
<EFX><LF>
1<LF>
625<LF>
<EOT><LF>
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how to pass this code in vb.net for serial port communication.
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ste5anSenior Developer
Commented:
Byte by byte. Either as byte array or as string.
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Hi  rajeshavyas;

What I think you are looking for is first to convert all your control codes such as <SOH>, <LF>, <STX> and so on to their ASCII code values. For example <SOH> is Start Of Heading which has a numeric value of 1 and <LF> which is Line Feed and has a value of 10 and everything else represents itself. Place into a Byte array or a string like this. 
Dim sendThis = Chr(1) & Chr(10) & "09_Cobas_Integra_09" & Chr(10) & Chr(2) & "10_01" & Chr(10)

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Although I do not know what <EFX> is? It may be a device specific code. Below is the beginning of the ASCII table that has the control codes. You may need to add a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll and use the Imports Microsoft.VisualBasicASCII Control Codes

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