Getting data from .NET application

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Pieter Pabst

I wrote a device driver in VB.NET. Now I need the data (integers) it gathers in Citect Tags. I could use SQL to do this (VB app -> Sql <- Citect). But is there no faster way, e.g. through VBA?

The driver/app doesn't run on the same machine as the Citect program, so I created a second program (VB.NET) which reads the values from the machine with the driver through TCP/IP. So I now have these integers available locally.

Should I write an Active X control? Or is there an easier way to do this?
 
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Davis Gentry

I'm not familiar with Citect, but VBA is garbage. Dog slow. Anything in Visual Studio .NET will be much faster.

If programming under .NET why use VB anyway? VC# is a much better platform. VC++ is still better, but it is not nearly as well documented as VC#.

Davis Gentry
 
You could also use XML and xpath to get this information otherwise arrays in VB.NET. Is this driver compatible with the HART protocol for engineering devices? If so I would love to take a look at the source code. Thanks.
 
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