I've written a simple serial terminal in C# that runs as a Windows Console application (i.e. in command prompt or powershell). It should work with most devices that show up as "COMx" in Device Manager, but I wrote it specifically to work in a terminal window in Visual Studio Code with CircuitPython devices. It includes COM port auto detection, automatic re-connection (if you disconnect and reconnect your device), and uses USB VID and PID values to identify and give preference to CircuitPython-capable devices. The idea was to get a serial monitor in VSCode that was as simple and functional as the serial monitor in the Mu editor. (I like the Mu editor quite a bit, but I do a lot of other work in Visual Studio Code and found switching between the two frustrating - particularly since I use CTRL-H in VSCode all the time!) I've attached a screenshot to this message showing it in action in a Visual Studio Code terminal window.
Everything is available on Github, so anyone who is interested is welcome to check it out at https://github.com/fasteddy516/SimplySerial. If you find it useful (or not), I'd love to hear from you!
In the interest of fair warning and full disclosure, I am new to object-oriented programming in general, new to the .NET framework and C# specifically, and still pretty new to Git/Github, so this is very much a "learning project" for me. I welcome any comments/suggestions from more experienced developers out there.
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