visual studio.net

[huikm]

How can I get Visual Studio.Net beta 2 to recognize componentsworks++? When will NI come up with a new measurement studio 2.0 to support Visual Studio.NET?

[drohacek]

The short answer is that Measurement Studio for C++ (ComponentWorks++) is not currently compatible with Visual Studio.NET. We are working on a maintenance release of Measurement Studio for C++ 6.0 that you will be able to install for use with Visual C++.NET. Look for this release sometime after Visual Studio.NET releases.

The long answer is that Visual C++.NET contains a new version of MFC. This version of MFC lives in a new DLL that is not backward compatible with the previous version of MFC. Since the Measurement Studio libraries have to link to a particular version of MFC (MFC42.DLL), you cannot use them in applications that link directly to the new DLL (MFC70.DLL).

Furthermore, the appwizard and add-in architectures changed completely between versi
ons of the Visual Studio environment, so we must re-implement them to provide this functionality in Visual Studio.NET.

David Rohacek
National Instruments

[Huikm 286]

I have some followup questions on this: Will the current version ComponentWorks 3.0 ActiveX controls have any problem with VS.NET? I presume it may have if its based on MFC42.dll. How can I get a beta version of the maintenance release of Measurement Studio that can work with VS.NET? This will help us very much at this point of time.

[Chris Matthews]

You should be able to use those controls with VS.NET. ActiveX controls are no longer native to VB so there will be wrappers generated for them in VB.NET. Also, the current version of the controls is actually 6.0 not 3.0. 3.0 controls were shipped with MStudio 1.0. The current version is MStudio 6.0.

Also, we will not be in beta for the next Measurement Studio release that will have .NET compatibility for quite a while. If you would like to apply for the Measurement Studio beta program you can do so at http://www.ni.com/beta.

Best Regards,

Chris Matthews
National Instruments

[CS Knurek]

When will the update be released?