I have been programing with Visual Basic and Measurement Studio for some time now. I wrote a program specifically for acoustic measurements that does what I need for my business.The work was done using VB-2008. I had both VB and MS on two different machines so I never really had to make a published version of my program and install it on another machine. Now those two machines are failing and I am struggling with a solution to porting the programs over to Windows 10. I thought I would try one of 3 options to get one that worked to run the program on Windows 10.
Option 1: publish from VB-2008 on a Windows 7 computer. I tried that and get the normal general installation screens but the program does not run on Windows 10
Option 2: Compile the VB-2008 program in VB-2017 on a Windows 10 computer. I thought I could just load the program into VB-2017 and it would update but it shows me a message saying that was not possible and must be rewritten!
Option 3: Write the program in VB-2017 using copy and paste for the transfer. This means I would need the same forms and same controls. I have a trial version of MS to see if I could get a simple program to run. If I can, then I would do the grunt work of re-entering code. So, I put a simple button on a form that changed the color of the button. I published that and ran it on another Windows 10 machine and it worked. Next I put a MS LED on the form and changed its color in a similar way. It works in VB-2017 on the source machine but the published version in Windows 10 on another machine does not show the LED. So I put other MS controls and elements like a graph and a slider and a thermometer. They showed up, but the LED did not. I figured a .dll was missing, but NationalInstruments.UI.WindowsForms.dll seems to be the right one and it is deployed. I know there is and LED as part of NationalInstruments.Controls.dll, but I can't use both without a conflict.
Can anyone give me some help on this???
