Questions about support for .NET in LabView 7

[RobertM]

I have read the application note ".NET support in LabView 7 Express". It describes the creation of .NET objects and calling their methods/setting properties. I have 2 related questions.

1. .NET classes also contain many static members, which are called via the class itself rather than an instance of the class. Can these methods be used in LabView 7 without creating an instance of the class ?

2. Many methods in .NET classes themselves return a reference to other .NET objects. Can these object references themselves then be used in LabView ?

[Jeremy Braden]

I spoke with the guy that wrote the LabVIEW shipping examples for .net. He says "Yes. Yes." and suggests looking at the examples. You can find them by opening LabVIEW >> help >> find examples >> communicating with external applications >> .net