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Getting Access for ASP.NET and ActiveX

Previously, I talked about using the LabVIEW ActiveX Server interface from within your ASP.NET application. I mentioned that the wonderful world of DCOM security, by default, would prevent you from calling LabVIEW through this interface. In this post, I'll explain how to configure the security settings to get this working.

Lang.NET Symposium 2006

As I mentioned earlier, I'm involved in the new Lang.NET Symposium being put on by Microsoft this August. Well I'm happy to say that the official website is now up, along with the material to be talked about.

ASP.NET and LV's ActiveX Interface

In previous posts (here and here), I described how to integrate a LV-built DLL with your ASP.NET application. You can also call a LabVIEW VI from the LabVIEW ActiveX Server interface.

The beginning of the end of an era

Looks like Bill Gates is going to move to a less hands-on role at Microsoft - but more hands on with his charity.

.NET 2.0 + WinFX = .NET 3.0

Microsoft announced on Friday that they're going through a bit of renaming. The post title says it all, but let me give a bit of background (actually, this post has a bit more info to add).

WinFX, for those that don't know, is basically the successor to Win32. It's a .NET API framework for some of the new techologies coming out of Microsoft. The three big names in it for this release are Avalon (aka Windows Presentation Foundation), Indigo (aka Windows Communication Foundation) and InfoCard. However, there are several other APIs that have been added to provide more Win32 abilities from within .NET.

However, there seemed to be some confusion over the difference between the .NET Framework, which has a bunch of .NET APIs, and WinFX, which has a bunch of .NET APIs. So it was decided to drop the WinFX name and go with just the .NET framework. Thus when Vista ships, what is available is .NET 3.0 - not WinFX. But this is pretty much a naming change - what is going to be available is the same as before.

An interesting note is that Vista is going to come pre-installed with .NET 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 - so you're ready to .NET the night away!

Hey, you Vista lovers!

Good news - the public beta of Vista is now available. As I've mentioned earlier, it's pretty easy to get it up and running on any computer from the last couple of years, but definately don't install it on your primary work computer :)

This would be "LabVIEW for ???"

Oh my, oh my