sweddle

OK I have been having fun with my lil Netduino happily hacking away in VS 2010 and C# woohoo! with my Arduino off to the side like an old pair of shoes, some good shoes they where but time to move on to the new better easy way of coding; The Netduino! One nice thing was Serial.read an easy to use way of communicating from the PC to microcontroller via the already connected built right in USB port (just like the Netduino built right in and providing power)... It was easy to make apps in VB.net and C# to control the Arduino and items attached to it.. Ummm am I missing something??? is there no netduino Serial.read in C# for the Netduino that will allow it to take commands via the (already connected, providing power and code load) USB port??? I so hope I'm missing something and the post I see about HID USB, no dice working on it and you got to hook up ANOTHER connection via a USB FTDI cable to Pin X and X.... Oh pleas tell me im missing something, Perhaps like; Debug.Read or Debug.Get USB.Read? another other then yet a 2nd set of wires from the same PC and a FTDI chip/part LOL... if I need to use an FTDI to do USB to Serial guess I could allays use my Arduino to do the conversion/connection it has FTDI built in. Hoping I'm missing something, thanks. Shane