Can VB6 talk to NI digital I/O hardware without Meas Studio?

[Rick Beau]

New to VB, experienced in LV. Need to talk to a NI DIO 24 card (in addition to PCI-GPIB- but found code snittpets for that). Do you need measurement studio? If not what does Meas. Studio buy you?

Thanks, Rick

[Chris Matthews]

No, you don't need Measurement Studio to use your DAQ card with Visual Basic. The NI-DAQmx driver software gives you VB.NET and VB 6 (ActiveX controls) interfaces for communicating with DAQ.

What Measurement Studio provides is:

The DAQ Assistant - tool that lets you interactively configure your DAQ operations and generates the code for you in VB.NET.

Native Libraries for VB.NET, VB 6, C# and C++ for:

VISA and Instrument I/O (GPIB, Serial, etc.)
User Interfaces (graphs, knobs, buttons, gauges, etc.)
Advanced Math and Analysis
Networking and Data Sharing and Publishing
And much more.

The DAQ Assistant makes writing your DAQ applications much easier in .NET, but it isn't required to talk to DAQ. The driver software provides APIs for VB
6 and VB.NET.

Best Regards,

Chris Matthews
National Instruments