[c#] What is the correct way to read a serial port using .NET framework?

I've read a lot of questions here about how to read data from serial ports using the .NET SerialPort class but none of the recommanded approaches have proven completely efficient for me.

Here is the code I am using for now:

SerialPort port = new SerialPort("COM1");
port.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(MyDataReceivedHandler);

And the event handler:

void MyDataReceivedHandler(object sender, SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e)
{
    int count = port.BytesToRead;
    byte[] ByteArray = new byte[count];
    port.Read(ByteArray, 0, count);
}

But I am still missing some data sometimes. I've tried different way of reading the data in the event handler but with no luck.

As the .NET 4.5 brings new possibilities to do some asynchronous tasks, like with the ReadAsync method that seems to be useable on a SerialPort stream, I'm curious to see what would be the recommended approach to handle those cases.

This question is related to c# serial-port .net-4.5

The answer is


    using System;
    using System.IO.Ports;
    using System.Threading;

    namespace SerialReadTest
    {
        class SerialRead
        {
            static void Main(string[] args)
            {
        Console.WriteLine("Serial read init");
        SerialPort port = new SerialPort("COM6", 115200, Parity.None, 8, StopBits.One);
        port.Open();
        while(true){
          Console.WriteLine(port.ReadLine());
        }

    }
}
}

I used similar code to @MethodMan but I had to keep track of the data the serial port was sending and look for a terminating character to know when the serial port was done sending data.

private string buffer { get; set; }
private SerialPort _port { get; set; }

public Port() 
{
    _port = new SerialPort();
    _port.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(dataReceived);
    buffer = string.Empty;
}

private void dataReceived(object sender, SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e)
{    
    buffer += _port.ReadExisting();

    //test for termination character in buffer
    if (buffer.Contains("\r\n"))
    {
        //run code on data received from serial port
    }
}

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