labview visual studio

[Miguel Alonso - Developer]

Hi,

I have to develop an application for mechanical processes. In this application I have to integer matlab code (maybe making .dll files). In first time I thought to develop it with visual studio (C#) but, at this moment, I don't know if it would be better to develop it with labview. The objetive is to make a friendly application to simulate the forces in machining process. I would like to know wich environment is the best for this application. In the future I will have to make some visual simulations like the milling process for example ( I know that measurement studio is a good library to do it with visual studio, but I don't know the resources of labview). I hope your answer soon,

Thanks a lot.

Miguel

[rolfk]

You ask this on a LabVIEW Forum, where only few people have ever worked with Visual Studio. Guess what the majority of people here think!

A general answer would be that it can be done in both. And that it will really depend on your existing knowledge and experience. If you know Visual Studio well and have created several larger projects in C++ or such, you will likely find LabVIEW hard to get used to at first. On the other hand if you don't have any C(++/#) knowledge yet but have done some work in LabVIEW already, you clearly will be up and running faster if you use LabVIEW.

If you have not used either so far, may I first suggest you to work through some generic programming tutorials before attempting to tackle your project? And in that case your preference for either may lay in how you tend to think. Some people think easier in text, others can think much easier in pictures. I can handle text programming for low level stuff quite well, but tend to get lost in the letters for larger systems, whereas I can keep quite a good overview of even large projects in LabVIEW.