Measurement Studio Controls in LabVIEW

[bfarley]

I was flipping thru the lates NI Instrumentation Newsletter and there is an article about using .NET controls in LV.  The atricle states that Measurement Studio controls can be used in LV.  Is this true?  I thought MS was just a plug-in for Visual Studio.  If itis true, how does it work?  If I install MS will the controls integrate onto my LV menus or is it a manual process?

Thanks,

Bill F

[JonathanN]

Hi Bill,

Measurement Studio provides native .NET UI controls that can be used in any environment that has the ability to host .NET controls. In this case, because LabVIEW supports the hosting of .NET controls, you can use the Measurement Studio UI controls in the LabVIEW Front Panel. 

You can always create your own .NET palette that contains the Measurement Studio UI controls. See the help topic entitled Creating .NET Subpalettes.  So just installing Measurement Studio won't automatically add any of those controls into LabVIEW. Measurement Studio only integrates directly with Visual Studio (i.e. we add our UI controls to the Toolbox, we add menus, project templates, documentation, etc).  For more information about using .NET controls in LabVIEW, see the Using .NET with LabVIEW help topic. This help topic discusses the basics of using .NET UI controls in LabVIEW.

Hope this helps!

Best Regards,