Interfacing Field Point with Visual Basic

[PG Student]

Dear Sir
I am implementing Ethernet based control system using NI Field Point modules namely Fp-1600,FP-RTD-122,FP-AI and FP-DO.I want to use Visual Basic 6.0 as my front end.
But I am unable to interface these modules with Visual Basic 6.0.It would be very kind of you if you could provide me some solution and example code if possible.
I feel very sorry that inspite of repeated mails to the Tech Support, no action was action towards solving the problem.

[Aaron_G]

FieldPoint does not have a Visual Basic driver. Instead, what you need to do is use the FieldPoint OPC server with an OPC Client in Visual Basic. National Instruments DataSockets are one form of OPC Client. You can write your own OPC Client or purchase one from vendors. Because the OPC Client portion of your code will vary, it is hard to provide example code. Application Note 139 "Developing an OPC Client Application Using Visual Basic", http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/appnotebynumber/87D5C15CAFB2654A86256874005C280C?OpenDocument&node=dz52000_us , describes how to use the NI DataSockets as an OPC Client with an OPC Server.

Regards,
Aaron