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VISA versions and VISA COM

Hello, 

 

I am new to this forum, but I have done some instrument automation in the past over GPIB. 

 

I am a big fan of using Excel VBA "Alt+F11" 

 

I currently have a working set-up, but I am confused about latest VISA versions. Last time I did this it was VISA 1.0 or VISA 3.0, I think latest now is VISA 5.5. 

 

I also can't find documentation to the latest version of VISA, I found a document describing NI-VISA, which dates back to 2001 and it describes viFunctions(). 

 

While latest examples seem to use VisaComLib that I am unfamiliar with, although just using ReadString and WriteString I can effectively automate 90% of my needs. 

 

Could someone point me to the latest documentation for VisualBasic/VBA that describes VISA COM 5.5 programming interface? 

 

Set ioMgr = New VisaComLib.ResourceManager
Set instrument = New VisaComLib.FormattedIO488
' use instrument specific address for Open() parameter – i.e. GPIB0::22
Set instrument.IO = ioMgr.Open("GPIB0::24")

 

 

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Hello vitoal2835!

 

Did you see this driver? Is VISA 16 compatible with W10,W8

http://www.ni.com/download/ni-visa-16.0/6184/en/

 

Would you mind telling me what is your main goal?

 

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