Definately not. It's mainly just a personal preference issue. Each compiler does have different pros and cons. Visual Basic is simpler and requires less code writing with the rich configuration options in property pages of the ActiveX controls, but you can't do more advanced tasks like multithreading (until VB.NET) or dynamic memory allocation without extreme effort. Visual C++ has many code optimization features, but it is by far the most difficult too develop in of the three. CVI is a happy median being easy to use and more powerful and flexible than VB. It doesn't have some of the more advanced features of VC++ though like code optimization. Not yet, anyway.
Really, it primarily comes down to what you feel the most comfortable with and is the eas
iest for you to get your application developed.
Best Regards,
Chris Matthews
National Instruments
