Communicating to dac through netduino

I want to use the netduino to ouptu a certain voltage through a dac121c085. Here is my code

A little more information is in order before we can help...

1.  What voltage are you using for Vref?

2.  Where did you get the integer 1228 from?  Is it calculated from the equation Vout = Vref * (D/4096)?

3.  byte [] registerValues is never used in the code snippet.  Is it used somewhere else?  If so, can you post the rest of the code?

His registerValues  is exactly the same as data , since they are both created the same way. I suspect it is left over unused testing code.

The main function, does not loop. It simply Sleeps 1/2 second and ends, I guess to give time for the i2c transaction to complete?. I am unsure what the device you are using does when the i2c line closes.

I have always had to use an i2c kickstart in my code;

            // required i2c kick
            OutputPort p = new OutputPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_SDA, true); p.Write(false); p.Dispose();

     I2CDevice.Configuration c = new I2CDevice.Configuration(0x53, 400);
     Byte[] POWER_CTL = new Byte[] {0x2D, 0x08};
     I2CDevice a = new I2CDevice(c);
     a.Execute(new I2CDevice.I2CTransaction[] { I2CDevice.CreateWriteTransaction(POWER_CTL) }, 100);

@zoot: I am using 5V from the netduino for the Va and I am shorting it to the Vref. I am not too sure if that is how it will work but I just tried that.

I wanted my output to be 3v so I did cross multiplication. 0xFFF represents 5v and x represents 3V. if you convert FFF to integer it is 2047. From there I multiply by 4 and divide by 5 to solve for x and then x is 1228 or 0x4CC. No the byte registervalues is not used anywhere else it was just repeat code.

@spiked: yes i found some code on a site showing a netduino communicating with an arduino and it had similar code but had a loop. I just took what i need from the code. it is not suppose to loop just send one piece of data once to change the output voltage. Well i looked at the data sheet of the chip i am using and it is telling me that the data needs to be stored at a certain slave address given the configuration of the chip. My adr1 and adr0 pins are left floating so the slave address will be 0001100 and that is 0x0C which is byte addr. 

for the code you wrote. What does the address 0x53 represent? and for your new Byte[] what does the 0x2d and 0x88 represent? i will try the kick start just to see if it works.