How to create a Machine Vision .net Webform Visual Studio 2012 C#

[cdwx]

Hello,

I am trying to creat a new web based solution in Visual Studio 2012 (c#)  for a capturing machine vision off multiple cameras.

I have seen (old) examples of Visual Studion windows based application for machine vision eg SnapGrap IEEE1394. I would like this type of application but for a web based configuration.

Is this possible and are there any examples/tutorials now available?

What is National instruments strategy for future web based applications in machine vision? It seems I can only find old projects, which are not web based.

Thank you for any help available.

Regards

Chris

[Prickly_Pear]

We offer a product called Vision Acquisition Software package that allows you to acquire images from firewire cameras (1394), USB 2.0, USB 3.0, GigE Vision, and CameraLink cameras (as well as a few legacy camera formats). This comes with a LabVIEW API as well as a C API. We provide some example code for acquiring images using our C API that you might find helpful. You can download a trial version of this software at this link: http://www.ni.com/download/ni-vision-acquisition-software-2014.02/4584/en/

If I understand you correctly, you would like to create a web service that displays the images from the camera on a web browser? You would have to design the webservice yourself in C# because we do not offer any text-based sofware tools to do that. I don't see any reason whey this webservice couldn't call the vision DLLs in order to acquire images from the camera to display them on the web browser.

Jeremy P.

[cdwx]

Thanks Jeremy, we do have a vision aqusition software licences at the moment but would like to try either a webform or a windows form environment. 

We will look into this web service solution at a later stage then if this is the only solution. We would like to try a windows form solution for VS 2012 preferably C# as well.

I have also been trying to use your Snap Grab application as windows form. Here is the lionk to the sample on the National Instruments website. http://www.ni.com/example/27279/en/

Unfortunately this project is not compiling in Visual Studio 2012. I believe the requirements specify 2003 or greater but it isnt working.

It seems the active x image viewer isnt compatible with .net 4.0, but I am not sure as I am a beginner.

Do you have this Snab Grab application compiled in VS 2012 which we can try to get working with our cameras?

Thanks for your help

Chris

[Prickly_Pear]

You can try looking through the text-based examples that install with VAS. You can find these by clicking Start>>All Programs>>National Instruments>>Vision>>Text Based Examples. You should find a lot of examples for Snap and Grab with a lot of different configurations. We provide the C++ example code but not any compiled executables. You can examine this provided code to learn how the Vision API works for C.

I hope this works for you. I don't believe that we have anything more to offer than these examples.

Jeremy P.