Visual Basic Help with Opal Kelly DLL

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Hello,
I know you don’t specifically support visual basic with Opal Kelly, but I have seen a few posts on here where people were successfully using it. I tried running the code from this post, but I’m having trouble getting it to work. I am using a 64-bit machine and I’m not sure how to handle the 32-bit vs 64-bit through visual basic. Do you have any working examples for Visual Basic using the Opal Kelly DLL? I am just learning visual basic so I don’t really know what I’m doing there, but I know other software/hardware languages so I’m picking it up pretty quick, but I may be making very simple mistakes. If you could show any working example in Visual basic that would be very helpful.

I’m using an XEM5010, but if I could see any example of how to interact with the Opal Kelly DLL in visual basic that would be really helpful.

Thanks!

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Figured it out so hopefully this post helps someone else out. You need to change all the places where it says “okUsbFrontPanel_” to “okFrontPanel_”. Once I did this my function calls worked. It would be nice if Opal Kelly included a little example on using this in their samples code

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Thanks for the post. It would be great if you could post your file to our Contributions forum so other people could benefit!

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Hi rho88!

What FrontPanel Version did you use? I’m trying with Frontpanel 4.3.1 and a XEM6010_LX45 board

Thanks!