Hex data conversion in VB2008 Express

[KrisJones]

Can Somebody please help a newbie ?

I`ve searched high and low for an answer, but just can`t seem to get it working !

I`m trying to write a programme ,in VB2008 Express, to receive Serial Port Ascii data ( from a Multimeter) and display it as Hex Data in a textbox.
I can get the Ascii data to show, but just cannot convert it into Hex.
Once I can do this I want to write a new front end for the Mulimeter software.

This is what i`ve written so far :

Imports System
Imports System.IO.Ports
Imports System.Text

Namespace WindowsApplication1

End Namespace

Public Class Form1

    Private WithEvents serialPort As New IO.Ports.SerialPort
    Private recievedData As String

    Public Delegate Sub UpdateRecievedData()





    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        With serialPort
            .PortName = "COM1"
            .BaudRate = 2400
            .DataBits = 8
            .StopBits = IO.Ports.StopBits.One
            '.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII
            .ReadTimeout = 2000

            Try
            Catch ex As Exception
                MsgBox(ex.Message)

            End Try
        End With

        serialPort.Open()




    End Sub




    Private Sub serialPort_DataReceived(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) Handles serialPort.DataReceived

        recievedData += serialPort.ReadExisting



        Me.Invoke(New UpdateRecievedData(AddressOf UpdateTextbox)) 'WORKING



    End Sub

    'Private Function HexString(ByVal EvalString As String) As String

    'Dim intStrLen As Integer
    'Dim intLoop As Integer
    'Dim strHex As String
    
    '  EvalString = Trim(EvalString)
    ' intStrLen = Len(EvalString)
    'For intLoop = 1 To intStrLen
    '   strHex = strHex & " " & Hex(Asc(Mid(EvalString, intLoop, 1)))
    'Next

    'HexString = strHex

    'Dim strOut As String
    '   strOut = HexString("ABC")

    'End Function



    Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click

        serialPort.Close()


    End Sub






    Private Sub UpdateTextbox() 'WORKING

        TextBox1.Text = recievedData   'HexString("ABC")




    End Sub




End Class

Thanks in advance

[ÜnLoCo]

try this one and see if it fits

Function StrToHex(ByVal str As String) As String
        Dim hexStr = ""
        For Each letter In str
            hexStr &= Hex(Asc(letter)) + " "
        Next
        Return hexStr
    End Function

output example:
StrToHex("a1X") = "61 31 58"