White Paper Discuss: 2004 .NET dashboard control dll

[Jeremy_Mc]

Originally Posted by Ameya

Instructions:

1. In your VB .NET project, right click on "Windows Forms" in the Toolbox
2. Select "Customize Toolbox"
3. Click on the ".NET Framework Components" tab
4. Click "Browse"
5. Find and select "dashreader.dll"
6. Draw the dashreader anywhere on the form--it disappears at runtime.

The "Port" property determines which port it tries to connect to. Use the "start()" method to actually connect to that port. The "NewPacket()" event is raised whenever a new packet of data is read. There are methods that return values for all of the data sent to the dashboard port (except for mode variables--I don't know how to interpret them).

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Hmm, is it okay if I wait to release the source until I'm asbolutely certain the new control is accurate? Otherwise, let me know and I'll upload it ASAP.

I keep receiving an exception when "InitializeComponent()" is called on the form...

I get this in debug:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in dashBoard-uG.exe

Additional information: File or assembly name dashreader, or one of its dependencies, was not found.

Any clues?