C# Async Serial Port Read

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Use async programming (don’t forget to target first your application to .NET Framework 4.5).

Here you’ve my implementation as extension methods for SerialPort.

using System;
using System.IO.Ports;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace ExtensionMethods.SerialPort
{
    public static class SerialPortExtensions
    {
        public async static Task ReadAsync(this SerialPort serialPort, byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            var bytesToRead = count;
            var temp = new byte[count];

            while (bytesToRead > 0)
            {
                var readBytes = await serialPort.BaseStream.ReadAsync(temp, 0, bytesToRead);
                Array.Copy(temp, 0, buffer, offset + count - bytesToRead, readBytes);
                bytesToRead -= readBytes;
            }
        }

        public async static Task<byte[]> ReadAsync(this SerialPort serialPort, int count)
        {
            var buffer = new byte[count];
            await serialPort.ReadAsync(buffer, 0, count);
            return buffer;
        }
    }
}

and here how to read:

public async void Work()
{
   try
   {
       var data = await serialPort.ReadAsync(5);
       DoStuff(data);
   }
   catch(Exception excepcion)
   {
       Trace.WriteLine(exception.Message);
   }
}

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