Why does NI CAN Example use NI CVI?

[EWiebe]

Hello,

when you buy a NI CAN Case (e.g. USB<->CAN: NI USB 8473) and install the drivers, the examples are also installed.

When you open the example

C:\Programme\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2012\examples\nican\Frame - Basic.llb

you will see that the CAN is

1. configured

2. opened

3. Attributes are read

But what is strange: for reading the attributes the Function "ncGetAttr" from nicvi.dll is used.

??? WHY ???

nican.dll has also a function named ncGetAttr. Why not use this function?

I have noticed it because I am writing a C# wrapper for NI CAN for my task.

BR

Eugen Wiebe