Future of Measurement Studio and the Web

[dpstark]

Hello,

I have a website that I have developed for internal use at my company to view data. It runs on ASP.NET and uses MVC. I have added a Webforms component to the site in order to display data in a ScatterGraph. While complicated, this works correctly for me, but only in IE9. I understand from the information on NI's site that only IE9 is really supported. In other browsers, things "work," but not completely.

I currently use Measurement Studio for several other PC-based programs I have written (again, internal tools) that work quite well. While I am not a web developer, by using Measurement Studio for Webforms, I am able to leverage quite a lot of existing work. This project has been an exploratory effort on my part to help people better access our data. At this point, it looks like Measurement Studio (with which I am familiar and happy) is the only server-side product capable of doing what I need to do out of the box. However, the development delay and the fact that it only supports Webforms, a nearly deprecated model, and IE9, an old and frankly poor browser, makes me wonder where NI thinks Measurement Studio and the web are going in the future.

What is NI's plan for the future of Measurement Studio and the web? Webforms are being phased out in favor of the MVC model, and I'm especially disturbed that no new release of Measurement Studio is planned until 2015. I currently have to instruct all users to use IE9 or IE10 in IE9 mode to correctly view data. This doesn't make users happy and is an especially brittle approach.

Any information from NI is appreciated.

[chaka1234]

Hello dpstark,

Our Measurement Studio development team are working on a new deployment feature to create professional installers and as a result of this effort, the Measurement Studio will be released until 2015.

However, I was checking our latest Measurement Studio version documentation (2013) and it says that our Measurement Studio supports (and has been tested with) the latest version of Internet Explorer that was available at the time when Measurement Studio was released. It means that Measurement Studio 2013 does support IE 10.

In the other hand, IE 11 came out after the release of Measurement Studio 2013, it means that this has not been tested yet and we cannot assure you a correct behavior of this.

Regards,

Carmen C.

[dpstark]

Thank you for the information. However, the graph interactions don't appear to work in IE10. Even the example that ships with Measurement Studio 2013 doesn't fully work. As I stated above, only "zoom on a point" seems work. While it could very well be that there is something set up here on my machine that is causing this, it doesn't seem to work for anyone else here where I work that I have had use the website.

Again, it's hard to say where the error is, but since the web server emits different HTML for IE10 than it does for IE9, something somewhere is causing this difference. However, I can use Fiddler to "fake" the webserver into thinking it's talking to IE9, in which case both IE10 and IE9 get the same HTML- and it still doesn't work.

If someone at NI can actually confirm that the example works for them in IE10, IE9, and all the way down to IE6 (which is specified in the documentation), I will happily admit I have a problem on my end.

The larger question I posed remains unanswered: will Measurement Studio stick with the outdated Webforms, or are you planning to modernize at all? Is Internet Explorer the only browser you intend to support? 2015 isn't very far away, and I would like to figure out what my path forward is with regard to this project.