visual basic 2005 express edition and VISA

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

I downloaded Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.

I'd like to experiment to write a simple program to send a command to and receive data from an instrument.

Has anyone done this? Any pointers on what is needed?

[Anonymous]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:11:37 -0600 (CST), nyc <x@no.email> wrote:

>I downloaded Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.
>I'd like to experiment to write a simple program to send a command to and receive data from an instrument.
>&nbsp;
>Has anyone done this? Any pointers&nbsp;on what is needed?
If you have a Nat Inst GPIB card in your PC and the software
installed, there are examples in the folder: C:\Program Files\National
Instruments\NI-488.2\Languages\Visual Basic

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

The examples were written for VB5 and work in VB6, but I am looking for examples that are written specifically for VB2005 which is based on .NET.

I downloaded an example that was written for VB.NET2003 on ni.com but there were various warnings when pulled into VB2005.

[Robert M]

Unfortunately National Instruments has not released any official NI-VISA examples for .NET 2005.  I think your best bet is to use or modify the 2003 examples in 2005.  It is not yet determined when we will release official examples for .NET 2005.  I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Thanks for the update.

This attempt was purely for experimental/learning purposes.