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Here is an implementation of a queued Mealy State Machine. Updated for 2016: https://forums.ni.com/t5/Reference-Design-Content/Event-Driven-Queued-State-Machine-EDQSM/ta-p/3841938 Original LAVA thread: https://lavag.org/topic/4623-simple-event-driven-queued-state-machine-with-front-panel-events-and-a-timer/

OK, so ActiveX still works in Excel 2016. But it is older than .NET and they can still deprecate it in the next version. So, experience on how to communicate with Excel via .NET can become very valuable.

Any idea how to write a 2D array of variants as a whole into Excel sheet using .NET calls? Doing it one cell at a time is apparently not feasible for large recordsets.

Did you try that 'Excel - write table.vi' example shipped with LabVIEW? Maybe there are some options during installation of Excel/Office or after it to install/turn on or not install/turn off ActiveX support?

Now that it looks like Microsoft deprecated ActveX Automation interface in Excel 2016, the only other interface left is .NET interop assemblies. I have tried to reproduce Excel - Write Table.vi using .NET instead of ActiveX. The result of the effort is attached. There is a big problem though: The Range.value2 property could take 'anything' without a problem when using ActiveX (it was taking any variant)! But now it wants a .NET object. And the 'To .NET Object.vi' doesn't accept a 2D array of variants! So, say getting a recordset from a database (which is returned as a 2d array of variants) and then writing it, as it is, to a new Excel workbook is no longer possible as far as I understand. This is really sad. A 2D Table of strings or doubles is still OK. So, if you need to use those, you can with the attached code Write Table to Excel with DotNET.vi