Measurement Studio support for LabView RT on PXI Rack?

[shansen]

My company is currently in the process of migrating our current data aquisition over to a LabView Real-Time system running on an NI PXI rack.

This rack will contain all of our Digital and Analog I/O, and the LabView RT processor will scale and analyze the data for our needs.

However, we assumed that NI would support a way to communicate with LabView RT via Measurement Studio (seeing as they support DAQ to Measurement Studio for most of their I/O devices).

After doing some quick research, I have not been able to find any information about interfacing a LabView RT system running on an external PXI rack to a PC via Measurement Studio.

It appears that LabWindows is supported, but all of our GUI code has already been developed in C# .NET and rewriting it would be too costly for us at this time.

So, is there any way to pipe data gathered on the NI PXI rack from LabView RT over to our PC running a .NET interface?

Thanks,

Steven

[drohacek]

Steven -

In LabVIEW RT, write your data to Network Shared Variables and in your C# program, use the Measurement Studio Network Variable API to read the data and display it in your C# UI. In addition to the Network Variable API, you should check out the NetworkVariableDataSource component if you are inclined to use data binding in your UI.

David Rohacek

National Instruments