GPIB Instrument control with VB6

[skyfire]

I have recently decided to migrate from labVIEW to Visual Basic, as my applications are becoming more and more demanding. I have Visual Studio 6 for Visual Basic, and I have no problem coding and creating interfaces, but I have no idea where to start as far as communicating with my instruments over GPIB.
I have NI-DAQ for Windows version 6.9.2 installed and apparently it contains support for Visual Basic, although I can't figure out what that support is... are there librarys that I can include and call to? If so, how do I do this? Is it possible to communicate with my instruments without getting the NI Measurement Studio for VB?

Thanks everyone 🙂

[AaronK]

Hi,
You should be able to program using Visual Basic without any issues. There are examples already created that should have installed on your system in C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI-488.2\Languages\Visual Basic\. In that directory is the language interface files and some good examples.

Hope this helps out!

Aaron K.
Application Engineer
National Instruments