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Cognex Corporation News
| Cognex Announces .NET Support for VisionPro PC Vision Software |
Natick, MA, March 24, 2005—Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ - CGNX), the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, today announced that its VisionPro® PC vision software supports the Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET programming environment. VisionPro users can easily integrate third-party .NET objects into their vision applications and readily integrate vision applications with their automation system. VisionPro with Visual Studio .NET allows system integrators, OEMs, and manufacturing engineers to speed the development of advanced vision applications in the following ways: VisionPro has been widely accepted by a broad range of users as the PC-based vision system of choice for the most challenging machine vision applications. The extensive vision tool library provides reliable and repeatable performance and the VisionPro acquisition engine supports a wide variety of Cognex framegrabbers and industrial camera options. VisionPro release 4.0 with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET support is available now. About Cognex Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision systems and machine vision sensors, or computers that can "see." Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 225,000 vision systems, representing over $1.7 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. Cognex's Modular Vision Systems Division, headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, specializes in machine vision systems which are used for automating the manufacture of a wide range of discrete items and for assuring their quality. Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division, headquartered in Alameda, California, specializes in machine vision systems which are used for inspecting the surfaces of products manufactured in a continuous fashion, such as metals, paper, and plastics. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, Cognex also has regional offices located throughout North America, Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Visit Cognex on-line at www.cognex.com. Microsoft and VisualStudio are either registered trademarks, or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. or other countries. |