Returns an estimate of the number of bytes that can be read from the connection without blocking.

Closes the connection and releases any system resources associated with the connection. If the connection is already closed then invoking this method has no effect.

Returns the maximum time, in milliseconds, to wait for any data to be received.

Returns the maximum time, in milliseconds, to wait in between reads after the initial read.

Returns true if the connection is open.

Opens a connection to a device. If the Open method is called on an open connection this call is ignored. When a handle to the connection is no longer needed, call Close() to free up system resources.

Reads all the available data from the connection. This call is non-blocking.

See the classes which implement this method for the format of the description string.

Causes the currently executing thread to sleep until BytesAvailable() > 0, or for a maximum of maxTimeout milliseconds.