Running LabView run time from Excel

[Anonymous]

I need to run a labview runtime from Excel, the problem is I do not
have LabView installed on my computer so I do not see the LabView
object library in Excel VB interface, I assumed that installing a
runtime version should install that too.

Am i missing something, or is there a way to run a labview runtime VI
using ActiveX without actually intstalling labview.

Thank You.

[Chris_Cilino]

Check out this post  on Accessing compiled VI`s via VBA . I think will shed some light on the subject. Also, consider making a dll instead of an exe. That may also solve the problem. Post to let us know your results. Thanks!

Chris C

[mikeporter]

I'm hoping that this thread isn't TOO old... In any case, I am also trying to call an ActiveX server I have built with LV from Excel. If I change the reference to "Labview.application" to something like "myapp.application", the routine actually runs once and Excel stops with a "runtime error '13' type mismatch". Anybody have any ideas as to what is mismatching what?

Mike....

[Chris_Cilino]

Hey Mike,

Two things to verify,

1. The LabVIEW run time engine is installed.

2. You've enabled ActiveX for your executable. See the picture below.

Chris C

Message Edited by Chris_C. on 02-22-2007 12:31 PM

Message Edited by Chris_C. on 02-22-2007 12:31 PM