JonnyBritish

Not rocket science but tonight I hooked up a Parallax 2x16 character LCD and ran the code below to test and it worked.
Here is the LCD - Parallax LCD

And docs on the LCD - http://www.parallax....ialLCD-v2.1.pdf

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO.Ports;
using System.Threading;
using Microsoft.SPOT;
using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware;
using SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware;
using SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware.Netduino;

namespace ParallaxLCDTest
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("Hello Netduino");

            //instantiate the serial port connection                           
            SerialPort serialPort = new SerialPort("COM1", 2400, Parity.None, 8, StopBits.One);
            serialPort.Open();
            serialPort.Write(bytes, 0, 14);
        }
    }
}

Next thing would be to build a class that can send control characters as well but so far so good. Now I just wish I had bought the 4 line version