Does Nimbus generate IVI.NET drivers?
No. There currently is no such thing as an IVI.NET driver, as the IVI Foundation has not yet completed the specifications defining what an IVI.NET driver should look like or how it should be constructed. The Foundation has formed the IVI.NET Working Group, which is tasked with defining specifications for building IVI.NET drivers in the future. This Working Group has also released wrappers, called Primary Interop Assemblies, for all of the IVI-defined classes that allow IVI-COM drivers to be used from .NET applications seamlessly. This has been shown to provide a very good experience for the end user building test applications with .NET client code and IVI-COM drivers. One of the truly unique features of Nimbus, however, is that it is already designed with IVI.NET in mind. When you create a Nimbus project now, that same project can be used to generate an IVI.NET driver when the IVI Foundation releases the appropriate specifications. Pacific MindWorks is spearheading the work of the IVI.
