MLPI-COM .NET / VBA Reference

Introduction

The mlpi4COM (Motion Logic Programming Interface - Component Object Model) is a programming interface which is based on Microsoft COM (Component Object Model) technology. It exposes various interfaces to access the different features of a Bosch Rexroth IndraMotion MLC or IndraControl XLC. It is available for x86 and x64 platforms. This SDK contains a dll-library, this documentation and some sample code.

Installation

This section contains information and various notes about the installation of the MLPI. Please read this before starting to use the MLPI.

Tools and IDE

To use the MLPI, you need to install the following packages:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional with SP1 or newer
• MLPI-SDK, which contains MLPI Libraries and Header files. You can find the MLPI-SDK in the IndraWorks Suite installation. Please install before you continue reading.

Note

Visual Studio 2005 is not supported for development on x64 platform and mlpi4COM. Therefore you need Visual Studio 2010 or newer.

Layout

Listed below are some directories you might want to know about.

<install> = The directory where you installed the mlpi4COM SDK.

• <install>\bin\win-vs2005sp1-x86
  Contains the COM-Server dll for windows x86 platform.
• <install>\bin\win-vs2005sp1-x64
  Contains the COM-Server dll for windows x64 platform.
• <install>\bin\wince-vs2005sp1-x86
  Contains the COM-Server dll for windows ce x86 platform.
• <install>\doc
  This documentation in different formats.
• <install>\samples
  Find some example projects using the MLPI here.

Note

You may want to include these paths to the default search path of Visual Studio. This way you don't need to care about absolute paths or copying the libs and headers to your project directory. To do this, open Visual Studio 2005 and go to Tools->Options->Projects And Solutions->VC++ Directories. In the left combobox called Platform, you have to select Win32. In the right combobox, choose Include Files and add the path to your <install>\include directory. Do the same for the Library Files, but insert the path to your <install>\lib path.

First Steps

Learn how to set up a simple application. Based on the platform where you want to run the executable of your application, this section is divided into two subpages.

• Creating a new C# project for Windows using Visual Studio 2005
• Creating a new Visual Basic (.NET) project for Windows using Visual Studio 2005
• Creating a new VBA project for Windows using Excel
• Run a C# application without dll registration

Next Steps

Following the above steps, you should have successfully...

• installed the MLPI-SDK
• created a basic MLPI project
• configured Visual Studio for debugging and deployment

Congratulations, you should have now all the basics to start developing your own application for the MLPI. For more information, have a look at the other pages of this documentation and look for the sample applications which are located in the samples path of your MLPI-SDK installation directory. All the non MLPI related documentation (Indralogic PLC, Fieldbusses, PLC-Open, Indradrive, etc...) can be found in the IndraWorks Suite installation.

For the latest information, please visit the BoschRexroth website. http://www.boschrexroth.com/oce