private void buttonConnect_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (_kCubeDCServoMotor != null) { MessageBox.Show("Device already connected"); return; } const string serialNumber = "27250312"; // All of this operation has been placed inside a single "catch-all" // exception handler. This is to reduce the size of the example code. // Normally you would have a try...catch per API call and catch the // specific exceptions that could be thrown (details of which can be // found in the Kinesis .NET API document). try { // Instructs the DeviceManager to build and maintain the list of // devices connected. DeviceManagerCLI.BuildDeviceList(); _kCubeDCServoMotor = KCubeDCServo.CreateKCubeDCServo(serialNumber); // Establish a connection with the device. _kCubeDCServoMotor.Connect(serialNumber); // Wait for the device settings to initialize. We ask the device to // throw an exception if this takes more than 5000ms (5s) to complete. _kCubeDCServoMotor.WaitForSettingsInitialized(5000); // Initialize the DeviceUnitConverter object required for real world // unit parameters. _kCubeDCServoMotor.GetMotorConfiguration(serialNumber); // This starts polling the device at intervals of 250ms (0.25s). _kCubeDCServoMotor.StartPolling(250); // We are now able to enable the device for commands. _kCubeDCServoMotor.EnableDevice(); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show("Unable to connect to device\n" + ex); } }