imaq 1394 visual studio 2010

[xianmin]

Is it possible to develop VB.NET app with Visual Studio 2010 using IMAQ with 1394 camera (AVT Pike 505B)?

I see that in VDM there are 2 .net installers for 2005 and 2008. Does VDM only works with these 2 versions of Visual Studio?

Thanks,

Xianmin

[wbadry]

Hi xianmin,

If you use VDM, then you can easily add IMAQ components from toolbox  and add components. select .NET components and choose IMAQ viewer.

Hope it helps

Have a lovely day

[xianmin]

Thanks for the reply, I actually did this. Then I don't know what next. How do I use it? Again I am not a .net programmer (java). In VB I think you can drop a control on the form, is it the same way in VB.NET?

Thanks,

Xianmin

[wbadry]

Exactly

You will find CWIMAQViewer control added to your toolbox. Did you open the shipped examples of NI IMAQ VDM in VB.NET?

[xianmin]

I created a new project in VS2010, select Tools -> Choose Toolbox Items. Now I see the window in your first reply. I found 2 NI entries and selected them. But I can't find anything in the Toolbox.

I then tried to use Browse in Choose Toolbox Items and load the dlls from Vision/dotNet/Assemblies/9.0.0.0 and Current, one at a time. In both cases the code won't compile. But I do see 3 SWIMAQxxx entries in the toolbox.

When you say shipped examples do you mean the ones in Vision/Examples? There are no .NET examples, only VB6 and MSVC.

Thanks,

Xianmin

[xianmin]

Forgot to mession, this is under Windows 7.

[Smootastic]

Hi xianmin,

Did you target your new project for .NET Framework version 3.5?

When I select .NET Framework 4.0, I don't see the controls.  With 3.5 selected, I can drop the control from my toolbox.

[xianmin]

Kyle,

Thanks, that helps. Now I change target to .net 3.5, i do see 2 image viewers in toolbox after I picked them in Choose toolbox items. I don't know there are 2. I can drag it to the form and the app runs.

I then tried to user Browse in Choose toolbox items and selected NationalInstruments.AxCWIMAQControlsLib.Interop.dll in Vision/dotNet/Assemblies/9.0.0.0.

Now I see 3 CWIMAQ controls in the toolbox. I put the CWIMAQ in the form. First when I check its property, I can't see all camera interfaces. I just typed in "cam2". Run the app, it is up. Close it, it crashes Visual Studio. It happen 2 times in a roll.

Maybe this is not the way to use IMAQ?

Thanks,

Xianmin

Windows 7, Visual Stuodio 2010, VAS2009

[Smootastic]

Hi xianmin,

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Now I see 3 CWIMAQ controls in the toolbox. I put the CWIMAQ in the form. First when I check its property, I can't see all camera interfaces. I just typed in "cam2". Run the app, it is up. Close it, it crashes Visual Studio. It happen 2 times in a roll.

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Visual Studio crashing is definitely not a good thing, but the problem could be from incompatibility issues with Visual Studio 2010, which released after the Vision Acquisition Software, or something else.  I would need to do more testing to find out.

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Maybe this is not the way to use IMAQ?

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Do you have the .NET examples installed?  I have them located on my machine at C:\Users\Public\Documents\National Instruments\NI-IMAQdx\Examples\dotNET .  While the majority of examples are written in C#, you should be able to port them to VB.NET.  If you don't have these examples installed, you can get them by re-running the Vision Acquisition Software installer and checking the .NET support and examples for installation.

[xianmin]

Kyle,

I will try to locate them and see if they work or not. I also tried Measurement Studio Visual Basic Demo. It doesn't work either. The IMAQ control doesn't show anything configured in MAX.

I am getting a new PC with XP and I will install everything fresh and see if it works. I will try to make VB6 works first. But I do hope that I can use newer things like vb.net or c#. If NI or someone else can provide me a list of things I need to have to make it work that would be great.

OS

development tools such as Visual Studio, .

net framework,

NI drivers.

what exmaples to run

Again I need to have vision and measurement studio. I have a 1394 camera and a USB-6211 for control.

Thanks,

Xianmin