Getting Serial Poll Status Byte in .Net (NationalInstruments.NI4882.dll)

[Gargoyle]

I am using the new .NET version of the IEEE488 driver with C#. I can do a serial poll. The Device.SerialPoll() returns an enum with three possible values. C# encodes enumerations, so there is no cast to byte. There seems to be no way to get the original status byte.

[drohacek]

While SerialPollFlags is an enum, it is attributed with FlagsAttribute. This means that it can actually contain any value. The NI4882 .NET class library does a simple cast from the driver byte value, so it should include all of the information that the driver returned.