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What is the difference between baud rate and bit rate?

January 28, 2023 by Tarik

Bits per second is straightforward. It is exactly what it sounds like. If I have 1000 bits and am sending them at 1000 bps, it will take exactly one second to transmit them. Baud is symbols per second. If these symbols — the indivisible elements of your data encoding — are not bits, the baud … Read more

Cross-thread operation not valid: Control ‘textBox1’ accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on [duplicate]

October 13, 2022 by Tarik

The data received in your serialPort1_DataReceived method is coming from another thread context than the UI thread, and that’s the reason you see this error. To remedy this, you will have to use a dispatcher as descibed in the MSDN article: How to: Make Thread-Safe Calls to Windows Forms Controls So instead of setting the … Read more