.NET in LabVIEW

[jyang72211]

There is a .NET palette in labview.  i have never used it before, and I am wondering what are the application for it?  Why would you want to develope LabVIEW code in .NET?  Can you give me some application and the benefits of using the .NET palette?  Thanks!

[nathand]

Those functions let you access .NET components within LabVIEW.  It serves many of the same purposes as the ActiveX palette, except that .NET is newer technology.  Some vendors now ship .NET assemblies to talk to their devices, and in general that's easier to use (and less likely to crash) than calling a DLL.  You can also use .NET to get at operating system libraries and functions that may be useful in LabVIEW but aren't directly exposed.

[Luke_W]

Hi jyang72211,

This palette is to allow LabVIEW native access to .NET servers and objects. So the main purpose and benefit is being able to interact with existing .NET code (not exactly developing .NET code in LabVIEW). You can see many discussions on its uses by searching ni.com for ".NET palette" and narrow results to devzone.

Regards,

Luke W