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Design Patterns are easy to use best-practice samples for common development tasks, programming techniques, and typical protocol features.

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Design Patterns

Pattern	Reference Topic	Description
Access a Control from Script	Script Component	Exposes a property from a Script Component making it accessible from the Properties Grid at design-time
Access a Device from a Script	About Samples	Controlling devices from within Script Components.
Append String to Byte Array	Serial Data	Appends an ASCII encoded string to end of a byte array.
Building and Formatting Strings	Unidirectional Drivers	Illustrates the uses of the String.Format method and StringBuilder class.
Byte Array to ArrayList	Unidirectional Drivers	How to copy byte arrays, and convert an array to an ArrayList object.
Byte Array to String	Serial Data	Converts an array of bytes to an ASCII string.
Byte Array to Value	Building Packets	Converts an array of bytes to an integer value.
Calculate Checksum	Checksums	Calculates a single-byte basic checksum from an array of bytes
Controllable Property	Write my Own Driver	Makes properties, methods or events in your script accessible to the Actions dialog in the Forms View.
Lock an Object	Multithreading	Advanced. Allows two or more methods running on separate threads to safely access shared data within a class.
Receive Bytes from a Port	Bidirectional Drivers	How to receive and accumulate incoming bytes from a serial or TCP port.
Receive String from a Port	Bidirectional Drivers	Receiving text strings from a serial or TCP port.
Start and Stop a Thread	Multithreading	Advanced. How to launch and safely terminate child threads.
String to Byte Array	Serial Data	Converts an ASCII encoded string to an array of bytes.
String to Value	Building Packets	Converts a number encoded as an ASCII string to a value.
Swap Bytes to Network Order	Building Packets	Converts multibyte values between host and network byte-order.
Value to Byte Array	Building Packets	Converts a multibyte integer value to an array of bytes.
Variable/Property/Event	Ports and Functions	Allows controllable read/write access to a propriety, with an event that is fired when the property value changes.
Wait for AutoResetEvent	Multithreading	Advanced. Shows how one thread can wait to be signalled from another thread, and to time out after a specified period
Write Byte Array to Port	Unidirectional Drivers	Outputs a byte array to a serial or TCP port.
Write String to Port	Unidirectional Drivers	Outputs a text string to a serial or TCP port, with or without end of line terminators.

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