Hey Andrew,
It sounds like you have it working through the GUI right now the way you want, correct? Now you just need to find a way to pull this into Visual Basic?
I would say most customers only use the GUI for evaluation purposes. For what you are wanting to do think it would probably be easier to just work from scartch. Instead of trying to pull the data from the log file of the GUI, you can use a terminal program (putty, realterm, docklight). In the terminal you can send the exact commands seen in the log window and the EVM should respond the exact same.
Based on this, I would imagine it would be easier to create a program that opens the COM port associated with the EVM, sends the commands, and saves/passes back the responses/ID's.
Does this make sense?
Thanks,
JD