When will VS2008 be supported?

[dualtronic]

What is the schedule for supporting Visual Studio 2008?  VS2008 has some good features that I am eager to start using with Measurement Studio.

[JonathanN]

Hi dualtronic,

We are currently working on providing native Visual Studio 2008 support for Measurement Studio.  All I can tell you at this point is that we are targeting releasing that version sometime next year.  However, we will be holding a beta program for the upcoming release. I am currently working on getting all that setup up and you will eventually be able to sign up at www.ni.com/beta.

Best Regards,

[drohacek]

dualtronic -

What support, specifically, are you looking for?

1) Do you want to use Measurement Studio integration features (e.g. project templates, DAQ Assistant) inside the Visual Studio 2008 environment? If so, which features?

2) Do you want to be able to use existing Measurement Studio .NET libraries inside the Visual Studio 2008 environment?

3) Do you want to be able to use existing Measurement Studio C++ libraries inside the Visual Studio 2008 environment?

4) Are there features of the .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5 that you expect Measurement Studio .NET libraries to support?

Any information you can provide will help us prioritize our efforts.

David Rohacek

National Instruments

[dualtronic]

Hi David,

I don't need the DAQ Assistant or templates so much. I just want to ensure that the controls and libraries work correctly in VS2008. For example, if I open my VS2005 project in VS2008, will it work correctly after I go through the upgrade wizard?  Will my web application (using NI web controls) work correctly?

Probably the most important features I want to work are the DAQmx libraries and the windows forms controls.  Obviously those are big categories, but they are pretty important.

If there are differences or problems, I'd like to know ahead of time so I can work around them.  There were big differences between VS2003 to VS2005 for Measurement Studio. I want to make sure I don't run into the same problems. 

Thanks for looking into this!

Joe

[drohacek]

Joe -

We are currently in the process of testing our VS2005 support libraries with VS2008.

• We have completed testing our DAQmx .NET libraries and did not find any issues. So, as far as we know, these are fine for use in VS2008.
• We should complete testing our other libraries over the next couple of weeks and can let you know the results via this forum.

However, you probably do not need to wait for this official blessing from us. The difference between VS2003/.NET Framework 1.1 and VS2005/.NET Framework 2.0 was much bigger, from our perspective, than the difference between VS2005/.NET Framework 2.0 and VS2008/.NET Framework 3.5. More information:

• VS2008 allows you to specify which version of the .NET Framework that you want to target with each project. This means that you can specify that you want your MStudio projects to target .NET Framework 2.0 and building that project in VS2008 should yield the exact same results as building it in VS2005. The difference is that you can take advantage of new features in the VS2008 development environment.
• Even if you choose to target .NET Framework 3.5 with your MStudio projects, we do not anticipate any problems with using any of the MStudio .NET libraries in this scenario because .NET Framework 3.5 uses the same version of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) as .NET Framework 2.0.
• The only compatibility issues we are currently aware of with our controls and Framework 3.5 are related to using our WebForms controls with the new ASP.NET/Ajax UpdatePanel control and the new ASP.NET/Ajax Timer control. We plan to fix these issues in an upcoming version of MStudio.

If you do decide to try these things out and hit any hiccups, we'd love to hear about them so that we can help you through them and resolve them in our upcoming version.

David Rohacek
National Instruments

[wdb]

Hi,

I did a simple test using VS2008 (RTM version).  I want to use the "wavegraph" from Measurement Studio 8.0.1.

But when compiling in VS 2008 I get immediatly an error message...

I supposed that Measurement Studio 8.0.1 would work since VS2005 and VS2008 can both use .NET 2.0.

Do you know when we would be able to use the User interface object (knob, wavegraph , ...) in VS 2008?

Kind regards,

wim

[drohacek]

What error message did you get?

[Tyzack]

Hello-

 I actually am trying to use the DAQ assistant in 2008, will this be included in the beta?

-Bill

[wdb]

I get the following error message

(I've just placed the 'waveformgraph1' on my form and tried to run the program)

"Task failed because "LC.exe" was not found, or the correct Microsoft Windows SDK is not installed.  The task is looking for "LC.exe" in the "bin" subdirectory beneath the location specified in the InstallationFolder value of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.01.  You my want to solve the problem by doing one of the following:

1. install Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET framework 3.5

2. Install Visual Studio 2008

3. Manually set the above registry key to the correct location

4. pass the correct location into the "ToolPath" parameter of the task"

ps. I checked the version number for the Microsoft Windows SDK .... and is says v5.0

ps. I've already installed Visual Studio 2008...

hope this helps....

regards,

wim

[drohacek]

Bill -

It is our intention to include support for using the DAQ Assistant in Visual Studio 2008 C# and VB.NET projects (but not Visual C++/MFC projects) in the upcoming Measurement Studio Beta.

David Rohacek

National Instruments