Upgrading to IVF

[postaquestion]

I am part of a group developing an interface for a Power Plant Control Room Simulator. There is a program that has been written using CVF Std Ed 6.6.C. We would like not to has to rewrite the program. We have two issues:

1.) What is involved in upgrading to theIVF current version?

2.) Can we use CVF 6.6C and/or IVF current version to write to a database (SQL, Access, etc.)? This is needed to interface with the Plant Control software (Honeywell PlantScape Vista R400). The R400 can interface with an OPC server. The OPC server will read the database. The CVF/IVF simulator programn needs to write to the database. If CVF/IVF can write to the database, is there any outside of CVF/IVF needed?

Any assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

1) There isn't an actual "upgrade" offer. You would purchase a new copy of IVF. You would also need a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition (or higher), or Visual Studio.NET 2003 or Visual C++.NET 2003. I would suggest, though, that if you're currently using CVF, you sit on it for a few more weeks, then check back here.

2) I don't know OPC. For ODBC, which is a common way of communicating with databases, there's Canaima Software's f90SQL, for which a free version for IVF can be downloaded through this forum. It's also available for CVF from their web site. Canaima is essentially out of business but the software still works.

[Les_Neilson]

Just to add to Steve's comments. If you do upgrade to IVF the vast majority of your CVF code will compile without a problem so no major rewrite is required.

I have no experience of interfacing to SQL so cannot help you there sorry.

Les