simpleTerm - Terminal Emulation

As part of my work I tend to find myself using terminal emulation a lot for testing and debugging. Having used numerous terminal emulation packages including the likes of HyperTerminal, Tera Term, PuTTY etc I have yet to find anything that perfectly suits my needs.

So I decided to design my own. Here it is, simpleTerm (that's simpleTerm not simpleTon). Its written entirely in Visual Basic .NET. Its pretty simple. Only the serial port and baud rate can be selected, the data bits, parity and stop bits are all fixed at 8, None and 1 (which 99% of the time is all i'll be using anyway).

Other features include logging to file. Showing received data as either ASCII or hexadecimal. Sending data as a string or hexadecimal/decimal escape code. Sending preset sequences. Auto add carriage returns on send. Configurable background and foreground colors and remember last connection settings.

The screen shots above and below show me using it to communicate with my bus pirate.