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SerialPort::StopBits Property

 

Gets or sets the standard number of stopbits per byte.

Namespace:   System.IO.Ports
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)

public:
[BrowsableAttribute(true)]
property StopBits StopBits {
	StopBits get();
	void set(StopBits value);
}

Property Value

Type: System.IO.Ports::StopBits

One of the StopBits values.

Exception Condition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The StopBits value is StopBits::None.

IOException

The port is in an invalid state.

- or -

An attempt to set the state of the underlying port failed. For example, the parameters passed from this SerialPort object were invalid.

The default value for StopBits is One.

The StopBits::None value is not supported.

The following example shows how to set the StopBits property to One.

SerialPort^ mySerialPort = gcnew SerialPort("COM1");

mySerialPort->BaudRate = 9600;
mySerialPort->Parity = Parity::None;
mySerialPort->StopBits = StopBits::One;
mySerialPort->DataBits = 8;
mySerialPort->Handshake = Handshake::None;
mySerialPort->RtsEnable = true;

The following example demonstrates the use of the SerialPort class to allow two users to chat from two separate computers connected by a null modem cable. In this example, the users are prompted for the port settings and a username before chatting. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the SerialPort class.

public:
    static void Main()
    {
        String^ name;
        String^ message;
        StringComparer^ stringComparer = StringComparer::OrdinalIgnoreCase;
        Thread^ readThread = gcnew Thread(gcnew ThreadStart(PortChat::Read));

        // Create a new SerialPort object with default settings.
        _serialPort = gcnew SerialPort();

        // Allow the user to set the appropriate properties.
        _serialPort->PortName = SetPortName(_serialPort->PortName);
        _serialPort->BaudRate = SetPortBaudRate(_serialPort->BaudRate);
        _serialPort->Parity = SetPortParity(_serialPort->Parity);
        _serialPort->DataBits = SetPortDataBits(_serialPort->DataBits);
        _serialPort->StopBits = SetPortStopBits(_serialPort->StopBits);
        _serialPort->Handshake = SetPortHandshake(_serialPort->Handshake);

        // Set the read/write timeouts
        _serialPort->ReadTimeout = 500;
        _serialPort->WriteTimeout = 500;

        _serialPort->Open();
        _continue = true;
        readThread->Start();

        Console::Write("Name: ");
        name = Console::ReadLine();

        Console::WriteLine("Type QUIT to exit");

        while (_continue)
        {
            message = Console::ReadLine();

            if (stringComparer->Equals("quit", message))
            {
                _continue = false;
            }
            else
            {
                _serialPort->WriteLine(
                    String::Format("<{0}>: {1}", name, message) );
            }
        }

        readThread->Join();
        _serialPort->Close();
    }

    static void Read()
    {
        while (_continue)
        {
            try
            {
                String^ message = _serialPort->ReadLine();
                Console::WriteLine(message);
            }
            catch (TimeoutException ^) { }
        }
    }

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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