Using Measurement Studio 8.0.1 with Visual Studio 2008 Beta

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Is it possible to install Measurement Studio 8 with Visual Studio Beta 8.0?  The installer tells me that I must have Visual Studio 2005, and cannot detect that I have a later version installed.  Any ideas?

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I just tried Measurement Studio 8.1.1.  Same problem.  It doesn't detect Visual Studio 2008, or doesn't accept that.  Is there some workaround where I can force the installation?

[JonathanN]

Hi Mark,

Currently Measurement Studio doesn't have support for Visual Studio 2008. We only have support for Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 6.0. 

As you know, Visual Studio 2008 is still in beta at this moment.  We are planning to support Visual Studio 2008 in the future so don't worry, we'll get there.

Best Regards,

[drohacek]

Mark -

While Jonathan's answer is correct, you should be able to use some of the Measurement Studio components in VS2008. Of course, because these components were released before VS2008 existed, we haven't tested them with VS2008 and we cannot officially support them in VS2008.

Given that you posted this question to the Measurement Studio for VC++ forum, I assume that you are using the Measurement Studio C++ class libraries. Is that correct?

If so, could you please respond to let us know which class libraries you want to use with VS2008 (e.g. User Interface, DAQmx, etc.)? This information will help us prioritize our future efforts to support VS2008.

If not, you should be able to install and use the Measurement Studio ActiveX controls from the Visual Studio 6 support CD or the the .NET class libraries from the VS2003/VS2005 CD. If you cannot, let us know what problems you are seeing. Because we have not tested these components in VS2008 yet, so we don't know if you'll encounter any problems. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you would report them to us to help us make sure that we address them when we release support for VS2008. Also, we might be able to help come up with workarounds for any issues that you encounter.

The reason that you cannot install VS2003 or VS2005 C++ support for use with VS2008 is that the VS2003 and VS2005 class libraries are static libraries that link to the specific versions of MFC that shipped with VS2003 (MFC 7.1) and VS2005 (MFC 8.0). Visual Studio 2008 includes a new version of MFC (9.0) and we have to create new static libraries that link to it.

David Rohacek

National Instruments

Message Edited by drohacek on 10-13-2007 01:42 PM

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David and Jonathon,

Thank you so much for your responses.

DAQmx class only (for now).  I am creating a DLL that will be called from LabVIEW.  I am integrating some NI hardware into a prototype system that used a different A/D converter.  The C++ code that I have already works, so rather than trying to port the code to LabVIEW, I'm just trying to use DAQmx in my C++ app.  The UI C++ classes are not of much use to me here, since all UI components are done w/ LabVIEW.