How to connect with AVT guppy camera in c#?

Question

Camera is running on FireWire bus, AVT smartView is running, but I can´t find any c# code example, how to work with camera. I tried Emgu CV, but it doesn´t work. Is there someone who was working with AVT camera? Any suggestion how to start? I´m just beginner.

Answer 1

AVT suggests to use the VIMBA SDK

After finishing the installation you will find the VimbaNET.dll in the installed folder like this:

C:\Programme\Allied Vision Technologies\AVTVimba_1.2\VimbaNET\Bin\Win32

Use it as reference in your Project. It is an .NET 2.0 Assembly if you use a higher Framework you need change the app.config File like this:

<configuration>
    <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
        <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework ,Version=v4.0" />
    </startup>
</configuration>

Example to list all available AVT Cameras:

string strName;
Vimba sys = new Vimba();
CameraCollection cameras = null;

try {
    sys.Startup();
    cameras = sys.Cameras;

    Console.WriteLine("Cameras found: " + cameras.Count);
    Console.WriteLine();

    foreach(Camera camera in cameras) {
        try {
            strName = camera.Name;
        } catch (VimbaException ve) {
            strName = ve.Message;
        }
        Console.WriteLine("/// Camera Name: " + strName);
    }
} finally {
    sys.Shutdown();
}

For more examples View the Documentation in the

C:\Programme\Allied Vision Technologies\AVTVimba_1.2\VimbaNET\Documentation Folder.