Is there a VISA driver for card advantech ?

[toto 748]

Hi,
I'd like to develop a generic driver for GPIB, RS232, TCP/IP, .... using VISA library.
I use LabWindows/CVI V6.0 to develop this driver.
I have two questions:
- Can I use a "VISA driver" from Visual C++ environment ?(It's my ultimate purpose:-))
- I have only a PCL813 advantech card (ISA bus) to test my driver. How can I do that (which parameter will I pass in the viOpen function for a such card?) ? I must certainly add something in the initialisation of my program but I don't know what ? Can you explain how to do and where I can find some informations please.
thanks

[logman]

Building a driver with Visa for a PCI device is definitely possible on a Windows operating system. You will want to make sure that you have installed the driver development wizard for VISA on your machine. After you do that, here is a great link to get you started:

Using the PXI Driver Development Wizard and NI-VISA to Register-Level Program a PXI/PCI Device under...

[toto 748]

thanks logman, but does it exist another means to develop this driver without using Labview ? Just with Labwindows/CVI ?

[logman]

The LabWindows/CVI examples in the link simply shows how to use the text-based version of the Visa API, which can also be accessed from Visual C++ by including Visa.h.