How to call Labview DLL from VB2005

Dear all expert,
I'm a student and very new in Labview programming.
Currently i have build a simple vi and need to convert it to dll so that i can call it from my VB.net. But the problem is how to call the labview dll from my VB.net?
I know we must declare function something like this,
Auto function Bodeplot Lib"..\\Bodeplot.dll" (Byval Val1 as double, Byval Val2 as double,...) as double
but how to determine Val1, Val2 (and so on) is input for which data? if my vi have 10 input (frequency, Kc,Fcz,Fcp,Wzrhp,Wp,k,Wz,Beta and Operation) ? and how to select the output (my application have 3 possible output : magnitup loop,phase loop, and degree loop)
In addition, since I'm using Labview 8.0 , and as i know apllication builder for this version cannot convert vi to dll which contain Mathscript (but unfortunely, my vi all use Mathscript), so really hope someone can help me to convert my vi to dll using Labview 8.2 (which remove this limitation).
here I'm attach my Vi and really hope someone willing to help.
Thank you.
Attachments:
bodeplot.vi ‏1049 KB

On Sep 17, 6:40 am, cckoh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all expert,
> I'm a student and very new in Labview programming.
> Currently i have build a simple vi and need to convert it to dll so that i can call it from my VB.net. But the problem is how to call the labview dll from my VB.net?
>  
> I know we must declare function something like this,
>  
> Auto function Bodeplot Lib"..\\Bodeplot.dll" (Byval Val1 as double, Byval Val2 as double,...) as double
>  
> but how to determine Val1, Val2 (and so on) is input for which data?  if my vi have 10 input (frequency, Kc,Fcz,Fcp,Wzrhp,Wp,k,Wz,Beta and Operation) ? and how to select the output (my application have 3 possible output : magnitup loop,phase loop, and degree loop)
>  
> In addition, since I'm using Labview 8.0 , and as i know apllication  builder for this version cannot convert vi to dll which contain Mathscript (but unfortunely, my vi all use Mathscript), so really hope someone can help me to convert my vi to dll using Labview 8.2 (which remove this limitation).
>  
> here I'm attach my Vi and really hope someone willing to help.
>  
> Thank you.
>  
>
> bodeplot.vi:http://forums.ni.com/attachments/ni/170/272124/1/bodeplot.vi
If you insist on using Labview with your project then you should
consider using ActveX in place of using a dynamic link library to
interface to your VB.net code. You don't need "Application Builder"
if you use ActiveX. The Student, Basic and Full development versions
of Labview for Windows come with ActiveX capability. For more
information on ActiveX look up the subject ActiveX in Labview's Help
File.
Howard

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