Ive got my new cable in USB to TTL, want to do some basic testing before jumping into a large project. wanted to get some help with basic code to Receive data from the PC first, lets say to begin with a 8 bit set . I have a textbox in VB.net that has a "11110000" in it, I am on another forum for help coding VB to send it to the serial port. On this side I need help reading the data and storing it in a variable. I am assuming HSERIN is what I need but I want to make sure I get this right. Once I get the basic I/O working I will expand the code for more bits and such.

I will output the variable to PORTB (8 LED's) for verification

for sending data to the PC, i have a POT attached to the ADC 0, and setup as 8bits. its VAR name is MYADC

So if anyone has suggestions....