AXIS 213 Camera

I have looked at several posts on the board regarding capturing an image from a webcam using labview and activex. I am trying to do the same with an AXIS 213 PTZ Network Camera. I am not having any luck so far as I do not have any experience in building dlls to hold the activex object, and I am not sure where to find the activex object to put into the dll. If anyone has any experience with doing this especially if it was with an AXIS Network Camera then I would greatly appreciate any help or possibly an example vi if possible.
Cheers!
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Hello,
I have downloaded the driver software and am looking over ActiveX examples but am still not clear on how to actually put a vi together that will call activeX methods that will allow me to interact with my device. Am I correct that I need to have, in this case, the AXIS Video Capture Driver installed on my machine and know what methods the driver users in order to call these same methods within LabVIEW? If this is true then I have to somehow create a dll that will point towards the AXIS Video Capture Driver to use its activeX methods? As I mentioned this is new territory for me so I apologize if my questions are nonsense. Any help will be appreciated!
Cheers!
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Senior Engineer
Using LV 2013, 2012
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