How can I use LabWindows/CVI 8 with Visual Studio?

[davey31415]

I have just recentley worked through learning C++ and Visual Basic using Visual Studio 2005.  I am wondering how (or if) I can use LabWindows/CVI 8 with Visual Studio 2005.  If 8 is not compatible with Studio 2005, what is it compatible with?

I am really just looking for some general pointers here; what I should focus on to be able to use Visual Studio with LabWindows- I started with MFC, ADO and ASP are on my list of things to learn, but I am not sure where to even start with LabWindows.  A run down of what components, environments, frameworks, etc might be helpful in getting up to speed here would be appreciated.

I am wondering exactly what I can do with LabWindows/CVI as well.  I would love to have the design capabilities and components of LabVIEW (data acquisition, array functions, charting, graphing, etc) combined with the structure and object-oriented programming of VB & VC++... Is this something I can expect of LabWindows? 

Thanks,

David.

[RobertH]

hello David,

CVI is a development environment which uses a C compiler.
if you prefer to work in a VisualStudio enviroment take a look here.

MeasurementStudio is a addon for VisualStudio, which provides elements like graphs.

regards,
robert h

[airicica]

hello.
I have the same problem.I need to do a project and I have to use ASP and labwindows cvi.And I don't know how to do this...
Is this posible?I need to do some grafics.And I need to use a data base.I have the toolkit.the queston is :can I use cvi in c#,better said in ASP? I'm waiting for your answer.Thank you

[Jervin Justin]

Hi airicica,

I'm over-simplifying here, but:

Measurement Studio is basically an add-on for Microsoft's Visual Studio that lets users add National Instrument's controls in Visual Studio and makes Data Acquisition in Visual Studio way easier.

CVI is an IDE that uses the ANSI C standard with a C compiler. CVI basically lets you easily make UI's that use our controls in C and simplifies Data Acquisition in C by providing a set a pre written libraries.

Measurement Studio and CVI are two separate products, you cannot just 'use' one in the other. It is possible to write a dll in CVI and then use the functions in that dll in ASP (Visual Studio) if that's what you are trying to accomplish. What exactly are you trying to do?

[airicica]

So

I have some text files with some results from an aquizition.Those are some temperatures..etc
And I want to make them available on the internet to some users.I also want to make some grafics...some statistics.
The inernet part I want it to be done with ASP.I know that Measurement Studio is very good for grafics,and it's easy to use it with Visual Studio.But some things I think it's easyer to be done with Labwindows CVI(I have the SQL Toolkit,for the data base).And I wonder if I can "export" the grafics from CVI into ASP,if I can publish on the internet what I do in CVI.(grafics,data,etc).
Thank you

[JonathanN]

HI airicica,

One option is to purchase Measurement Studio which has ASP.NET controls that you can use to design a webpage (Note The ASP.NET controls have similar functionality to the CVI controls).  You can then use network variables to link those controls back to your CVI application.  Basically what you could do is bind your Measurement Studio ASP.NET controls to some network variable that is being updating by your CVI application.

Just a thought...

Best Regards,

[airicica]

thank you
I'll read a little bit about network variables...and I hope to get the idea
I might have some questions later...but I'll see then
Thank you again