Assistance Required with VB.net

[LEDave]

Hi Henrik,

Success, but..........!

First of all the success. I changed the PIC code to:

SEROUT2 PORTC.3, 16780, [ z]

Then changed this line in the VB program:

 Me.AddListBoxItem(SerialPort1.ReadExisting)

To:

Me.AddListBoxItem(SerialPort1.ReadByte)

And away it went reading and displaying Random Bytes, brilliant

Now for the but part. I actually want the VB program to read a WORD sent from the PIC (a short in VB?) however for the AddListBoxItem(SerialPort1.Readxxxx there is:

ReadByte
ReadChar
ReadExisting
ReadLine
ReadTo

No ReadShort

Now I'm thinking somehow it's send a High Byte from the PIC then a Low Byte and join them together in VB, unless there's a 'ReadShort' option.

Dave